A storm system dumped 6 to 10 inches in some valleys of northern and southwestern Elko county while the mountains generally received 8 to 15 inches with some locations receiving around 2 feet.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 LKN wrote it up.
A storm system dumped 6 to 10 inches in some valleys of northern and southwestern Elko county while the mountains generally received 8 to 15 inches with some locations receiving around 2 feet.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Elko, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 24, 2:05 PM PST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV 205 PM PST TUE NOV 24 2015 .SYNOPSIS...A STRONG WINTER STORM WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEVADA TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY BRINGING SNOW AND VERY COLD TEMPERATURES. MUCH BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND. SOME MOISTURE WILL WRAP AROUND THE DEPARTING SYSTEM AND HIT THE RUBIES AND PARTS OF NORTHEAST NEVADA INTO FRIDAY. && .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY. STRONG UPPER LOW OFF THE COAST IS MOVING ACCORDING TO THE SHORT TERM MODELS AND THE PREVIOUS FORECAST PACKAGE IS WELL PUT TOGETHER. ONLY A FEW CHANGES AND WILL MENTION IN A MOMENT. AS OF THIS WRITING WARM FRONT IS MOVING INTO IDAHO FROM NORTHWEST NEVADA. COLD FRONT JUST ENTERING NORTHWEST NEVADA. THIS SYSTEM WILL SLIDE EAST THROUGH THIS EVENING AND EXIT THE STATE WEDNESDAY MORNING. PATCHES OF LIGHT RAIN FALL IN BETWEEN THE WARM AND COLD FRONT WITH AN AREA OF RAIN ALONG THE FRONT BUT OVER THE SIERRAS. AS THE FRONT MOVES IN VERY MUCH COLDER AIR BEHIND IT WILL QUICKLY TURN THE RAIN TO SNOW. ANY WET SPOTS WILL FLASH FREEZE. EXPECTING 1 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW IN THE VALLEYS WITH THE FRONT, EXCEPT ACROSS NORTHERN NYE COUNTY WHERE LESS THAN 1 INCH IS EXPECTED. BY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON UPPER LOW WILL BE CENTERED OVER NORTH CENTRAL NEVADA WITH GOOD WRAP AROUND SNOW ACROSS NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY...EASTERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY...AND THE RUBY/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE INTO LATE THURSDAY AS THE UPPER LOW TRACKS EAST ALONG INTERSTATE 80 AND LOW PRESSURE LOBES FORM ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE LOW. LOOKS LIKE 5 TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW IN THE VALLEYS OF NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY AND NORTHERN HUMBOLDT COUNTY. THEREFORE HAVE RETAINED THE WINTER STORM WARNING. FOR THE REST OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NV(EXCEPT NORTHERN NYE COUNTY) KEPT THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. NOTE: WRAP AROUND MOISTURE AND A DECENT UPSLOPE WILL AFFECT NORTHEAST ELKO COUNTY AND RUBY/EAST HUMBOLDT RANGES. HAVE INCREASED QPF AND SNOW AMOUNTS THERE...ESPECIALLY IN THE RUBIES/EAST HUMBOLDTS FOR THURSDAY. THERE IS A HINT THAT GREAT BASIN NP MAY GET A WESTERN UPSLOPE LATER THURSDAY AND FRIDAY BUT HAVE NOT CHANGE THAT AT THIS TIME. .LONG TERM...FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH NEXT TUESDAY. UPPER LEVEL LOW REMAINS OVER THE GREAT BASIN FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. MAY SEE A FEW LIGHT SNOW FLURRIES INTO THE WEEKEND WITH PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES...ALONG WITH WELL BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES. LOW EJECTS EAST SUNDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH DECREASING CLOUD COVER ALONG WITH CONTINUED BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES AS THE FLOW ALOFT BECOMES NORTHERLY. QUITE A BIT OF MODEL UNCERTAINLY NEXT WEEK AS MODELS TRY TO GET A HANDLE ON ANOTHER STORM SYSTEM APPROACHING THE WEST COAST. ECMWF MODEL KEEPS THE CWA DRY MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...WHILE THE GFS BEGINS TO SPREAD LIGHT PRECIPITATION INTO WESTERN NEVADA AS EARLY AS MONDAY NIGHT. && .AVIATION...GUSTY WINDS ACROSS PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON. MAY SEE SOME PERIODS OF GUSTY WINDS INTO THE EVENING HOURS AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT THAT WILL MOVE INTO THE REGION THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. THE APPROACHING STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING MOIST AND MUCH COLDER AIR TO THE REGION. HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION IS EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA...WITH LIGHT TO MODERATE SNOW ACROSS CENTRAL NEVADA. && .LKN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER STORM WARNING FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 4 PM PST THURSDAY FOR NORTHERN ELKO COUNTY. WINTER STORM WARNING UNTIL 10 AM PST THURSDAY FOR HUMBOLDT COUNTY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 4 AM TO 4 PM PST WEDNESDAY FOR SOUTH CENTRAL ELKO COUNTY-SOUTHEASTERN ELKO COUNTY-WHITE PINE COUNTY. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 10 PM THIS EVENING TO 10 AM PST WEDNESDAY FOR NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND NORTHERN EUREKA COUNTY- RUBY MOUNTAINS AND EAST HUMBOLDT RANGE-SOUTHERN LANDER COUNTY AND SOUTHERN EUREKA COUNTY-SOUTHWEST ELKO COUNTY. && 98/96/96
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
The mountains generally received 8 to 20 inches of snow. The town of Jarbidge received 20 inches of snow.
Reports from Spring Creek indicated 6 to 9 inches of snow while in Elko around 6 inches fell.
SNOTEL's reported 1 to 2 feet of new snow.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nevada in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, November 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 608521, 608522, 608524.