Heavy Snow in Niobrara County, Wyoming

Heavy Snow April 15, 2021 – April 16, 2021 · Niobrara County, Wyoming

What the National Weather Service wrote

Observer located fifteen miles northeast of Lusk measured 6.0 inches of snowfall.

The wider storm

Winter storm produced widespread snowfall across southeastern Wyoming during the middle portion of the month. Higher terrain across Carbon and Albany Counties measured heavy snowfall amounts along with an observer up in Niobrara County. Interstate 80 was closed due to the winter weather for close to twelve hours between Walcott Junction and Laramie with an estimated private trucking company loss of one million dollars per hour closed.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 950971. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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