Heavy Snow — Niobrara County, Wyoming

2020-09-07 to 2020-09-08 · Niobrara County, Wyoming

Event narrative

Observer located roughly a half mile south of Lusk measured a storm total snowfall of 6.0 inches.

Wider weather episode

An early season winter storm impacted the region on the 8th and 9th bringing in mixed precipitation and accumulating snowfall. In addition in the wake of the precipitation, hard freezing temperatures brought an end to the growing season with many locations dropping overnight temperatures into the middle 20s. Cheyenne set a new daily snowfall amount and tied earliest accumulating snowfall.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 915443. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.