The Nation - News from Jan. 6, 1987
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A dangerous winter storm punished the central Rockies with heavy snow and strong wind gusts in higher elevations of the Southwest already under more than two feet of snow. The slow-moving Pacific storm spread rain, and locally heavy snows in the mountains, across southern Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico and northward into the Rockies. Wind gusts to 61 m.p.h. were clocked at Cortez, Colo. Nearly three feet of snowfall since Sunday morning in parts of Utah prompted the National Forest Service to issue an extreme avalanche hazard for a portion of the Wasatch Mountains.
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