Heavy Snow, Cascades in Lane County
- When
- April 17, 2:00 PM PST to April 18, 12:00 PM PST
- Where
- Cascades in Lane County forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Oregon, April 17 to 18, 1996
A second storm moved ashore on April the 17th through the 18th and dumped heavy snow in the Southern Cascades, with Crater Lake reciving 7 inches. Weston Mountain in the Northeastern Mountains recieved 4 inches with lesser amounts over the Central Oregon Plateau.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PQR wrote it up.
A second storm moved ashore on April the 17th through the 18th and dumped heavy snow in the Southern Cascades, with Crater Lake reciving 7 inches. Weston Mountain in the Northeastern Mountains recieved 4 inches with lesser amounts over the Central Oregon Plateau.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Northern Oregon Cascades
- When
- April 17, 2:00 PM PST to April 18, 12:00 PM PST
- Where
- Northern Oregon Cascades forecast zone
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, April 17, 1996
- High Wind in Colorado, April 17, 1996
- High Wind in New Mexico, April 17, 1996
- Winter Storm in Idaho, April 17 to 18, 1996
- Flood in Connecticut, April 17 to 30, 1996
- Flood in Massachusetts, April 17 to 20, 1996
- Flood in Connecticut, April 17 to 19, 1996
- Strong Wind in California, April 17, 1996
- Flood in New Hampshire, April 17 to 18, 1996
- Flood in Rhode Island, April 17, 1996
- Flood in Connecticut, April 17 to 18, 1996
- Flood in Massachusetts, April 17 to 19, 1996
More
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Sources
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5556787, 5556788.