A cold and strong area of low pressure continued to move east across Arizona New Years Day. with some heavy snow lingering over Apache County.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS FGZ wrote it up.
A cold and strong area of low pressure continued to move east across Arizona New Years Day. Heavy snow had ended over much of Arizona before midnight...with some heavy snow lingering over Apache County.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Between 7.7 and 9 inches of snow fell in the Show Low area. Snow started falling by evening on New Years Eve with most of the snow falling after midnight. Two miles north of McNary received 7.7 inches of snow.
Six inches of snow fell in Kayenta at an elevation of 5600 feet.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, January 2015
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 556129, 556218.