A cut-off low moved over northern Arizona with the heaviest snow over Yavapai County and southern Apache counties.
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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 cut-off low moved over northern Arizona with the heaviest snow over Yavapai County and southern Apache counties.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Eight to nine inches of snow fell in the Alpine area.
Ten inches of snow fell in Walker at an elevation of 6,400 feet. Nine inches of snow fell in Crown King at an elevation of 5,800 feet. Four to eight inches of snow fell in the Prescott and Prescott Valley area.
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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: 870084, 870083.