Heavy Snow in Niobrara County, Wyoming

Heavy Snow December 9, 2021 – December 10, 2021 · Niobrara County, Wyoming

What the National Weather Service wrote

The public provided a photo via Facebook of approximately 11 inches of snow in Lusk. Archived radar and nearby surface observations indicate the heaviest snow likely fell late in the evening on the 9th.

The wider storm

Widespread snow was observed across a large portion of southeast Wyoming on the 9th and 10th, with the heaviest snowfall generally observed to the north of a line from Laramie to Torrington. The highest totals in the lower elevations were observed across Carbon County with 12 to 13 inches of snow reported near Rawlins and Elk Mountain, as well as up to 18 inches around Saratoga in the Upper North Platte Basin. In the mountains, 2 to locally 3+ feet of snow were observed above 9000 feet elevation in the Snowys and Sierra Madres.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 990864. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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