This was the strongest storm of the month bringing significant snow totals to the Sierra, including Sierra communities, along with lighter rain into western Nevada. Snow totals in the High Sierra were over 2 feet in several areas.
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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.
This was the strongest storm of the month bringing significant snow totals to the Sierra, including Sierra communities, along with lighter rain into western Nevada. Snow totals in the High Sierra were over 2 feet in several areas. High winds were the greatest impact for western Nevada. Strong winds accompanied the storm as well.
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 12, 1:42 AM PST, 5 hours 18 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow, 2 high wind, 1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
The CO-OP stations in Tahoma, TAAC1, Tahoe City, TAHC1, and Boca Reservoir, BOCC1, each reported multi-day storm totals of 29.7, 18, and 15 inches of snow respectively. The Sierra Snow Lab had a storm total of 27.8 inches.
Cocorahs station CA-LS-1 Susanville 3.2 SSW reported 1.8 inches of snow.
Mammoth Mountain Ski Area Main Lodge reported 23 inches of snow at elevation 8900-9000 feet, with 22 inches reported at June Mountain Ski Base around 8700 feet elevation.
Mesonet station MTH03 1.7 S Mammoth Mountain (MAMMOTH), Mesonet station MTH05 0.6 SW Mammoth Mountain (MAMMOTH), Mesonet station SE410 0.7 NW Twin Lakes (SCE), Mesonet station SE384 2.9 SW Crowley Lake (SCE), and Mesonet station LIB05 3.7 SE Topaz Lake (LIBERTY), reported wind gusts peaking at 107mph, 79 mph, 50 mph, 46 mph, and 46 mph, respectively.
Mesonet station SCTAM 0.8 SW Alpine Meadows (TAHOE) and Mesonet station JPL02 4.0 W Glenbrook (JPLNASA) reported peak wind gusts of 58 mph and 45 mph, respectively.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 1243630, 1243641, 1242625, 1243664, 1243701.