Another cool storm system moved into central California overnight the 20th and into the morning hours of the 21st. Light rain and snowfall occurred with this storm.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 REV wrote it up.
Another cool storm system moved into central California overnight the 20th and into the morning hours of the 21st. Light rain and snowfall occurred with this storm.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall totals were generally 1 to 5 inches with locally up to 9 inches above 7000 feet near the Sierra Nevada crest on the west portion of the Lake Tahoe Basin.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in California, May 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 831950.