Heavy Snow, Northern Oregon Coast
- When
- January 18, 8:00 AM PST to 8:00 PM PST
- Where
- Northern Oregon Coast forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 18, 1996
Moist Pacific air overran cold air trapped in the Willamette Valley and the Columbia Gorge producing heavy snow. In the Willamette Valley, 3 inches fell at Dallas, with 2 inches at Portland and Beaverton.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
Moist Pacific air overran cold air trapped in the Willamette Valley and the Columbia Gorge producing heavy snow. In the Willamette Valley, 3 inches fell at Dallas, with 2 inches at Portland and Beaverton. In the Columbia Gorge 8 inches fell at Hood River with 5 inches at Cascade Locks.
Event by event
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Central Coast Range of W Oregon
- When
- January 18, 8:00 AM PST to 8:00 PM PST
- Where
- Central Coast Range of W Oregon forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Central Willamette Valley
- When
- January 18, 8:00 AM PST to 8:00 PM PST
- Where
- Central Willamette Valley 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
- Cold in Oklahoma, January 18 to 20, 1996
- Blizzard in Iowa, January 18, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Washington, January 18 to 19, 1996
- Cold in Wisconsin, January 18, 1996
- High Wind in Indiana, January 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in Virginia, January 18 to 19, 1996
- Tornado in Missouri, January 18, 1996
- Flash Flood in Virginia, January 18 to 19, 1996
- Flash Flood in New York, January 18, 1996
- High Wind in Alabama, January 18 to 19, 1996
- Tornado in Kentucky, January 18, 1996
- Tornado in Arkansas, January 18, 1996
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, January 1996
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: 5560822, 5560823, 5560824.