An incoming cold front passing across northern CA into western NV brought moderate to heavy mountain snow and travel impacts to Tahoe area mountain passes overnight into Tuesday morning. Gusty southwest winds with this front produced wind impacts east of the Sierra Crest into western NV.
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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 REV wrote it up.
An incoming cold front passing across northern CA into western NV brought moderate to heavy mountain snow and travel impacts to Tahoe area mountain passes overnight into Tuesday morning. Gusty southwest winds with this front produced wind impacts east of the Sierra Crest into western NV.
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 Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 10, 12:43 PM PST, 16 hours 17 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow, 2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter located 1.0 NNW of Incline Village and mesonet station (MRSN2) located at Mount Rose summit (SNOTEL) reported storm total snowfall amounts of 7.5 and 8.0 inches respectively.
Mesonet station (HVRBL) located 2.0 mi S of Heavenly Valley Ski resort report storm total snowfall amount of 8.9 inches.
NV DOT mesonet station (LUNNV) located 10.2 WNW of Luning, NV reported at maximum wind gust of 58 mph.
DRI mesonet station (SLIDE) located 0.9 mi ESE of Mount Rose Summit (DRI) reported a maximum wind gust of 93 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nevada in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, April 2022
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: 1020503, 1020166, 1020162, 1020163.