A very cold low pressure system brought unusually heavy snow to low elevations in the Mojave Desert.
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 VEF wrote it up.
A very cold low pressure system brought unusually heavy snow to low elevations in the Mojave Desert.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Eighteen inches of snow fell in Kingman, 11 inches in Valentine, and similar amounts elsewhere in the northwest deserts of Mohave County. DW Ranch Road, Hualapai Mountain Road, and Route 66 were all closed due to snow. This may have been the heaviest snow in Kingman's history.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, February 2019
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: 805452.