Damaging winds along with heavy snow accompanied a major winter storm system that moved through the region. Sierra travel remained treacherous through the weekend, with periods of life-threatening blizzard conditions.
Every event with a place to put it; 4 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.
Damaging winds along with heavy snow accompanied a major winter storm system that moved through the region. Sierra travel remained treacherous through the weekend, with periods of life-threatening blizzard conditions. IDSS messaging included avoiding travel into the Sierra through this weekend.
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 Mar 1, 3:00 AM PST, 5 hours 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.
The public located at Homewood Mountain Ski Base, CA, the Palisades Tahoe Ski Base, Northstar Ski Base , CA, and Tahoe-Donner Ski Base reported storm total snowfall amounts of 88.0 inches, 72.0 inches, 70.0 inches, and 62 inches respectively.
Mesonet station (MTH03-MAMMOTH) located 1.7 mi S of Mammoth Mountain, CA reported a peak wind gust of 114 mph.
Mesonet station (HVRTM) located 1.0 mi NNW of Heavenly Ski Summit at Blue Streak Weather Station, and mesonet station (SGHEN) located 3.0 mi E of Independence Lake at Sagehen Creek Field Station reported peak wind gusts of 107 mph and 138 mph respectively.
The public located at Homewood Mountain Ski Base, CA, the Palisades Tahoe Ski Base, CA, Northstar Ski Base, CA, and Tahoe-Donner Ski Base, CA, reported the 24 hour snowfall amounts of 42.0 inches, 31.0 inches, 26.0 inches, and 18.0 inches respectively.|Homewood Mountain Ski Base, the Palisades Tahoe Ski Base, Northstar Ski Base, CA, and Tahoe-Donner Ski Base reported 72 hour storm total snowfall of 88 inches, 72 inches, 70.0 inches, and 62 inches respectively.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in California, March 2024
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: 1177861, 1177864, 1177863, 1177862.