Heavy Snow, Greater Portland Metro Area
- When
- January 18, 3:00 AM PST to January 19, 12:00 AM PST
- Where
- Greater Portland Metro Area forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 18 to 19, 1996
Moisture from a Pacific system pushes into the Cascades and Eastern Oregon producing heavy snow. In the Cascades 14 inches fell at Santiam Pass,13 inches at Crater Lake, and 12 inches at Bennett Pass and Tombstone.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
Moisture from a Pacific system pushes into the Cascades and Eastern Oregon producing heavy snow. In the Cascades 14 inches fell at Santiam Pass,13 inches at Crater Lake, and 12 inches at Bennett Pass and Tombstone. In Eastern Oregon, 8 inches of snow fell at Bend and LaPine, 9 inches at Chiloquin and Crescent, and 7 to 8 inches at Klamath Falls.
Event by event
4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Southern Willamette Valley
- When
- January 18, 3:00 AM PST to January 19, 12:00 AM PST
- Where
- Southern Willamette Valley forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Western Columbia River Gorge
- When
- January 18, 3:00 AM PST to January 19, 12:00 AM PST
- Where
- Western Columbia River Gorge forecast zone
Heavy Snow, Cascades in Lane County
- When
- January 18, 3:00 AM PST to January 19, 12:00 AM PST
- Where
- Cascades in Lane County 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: 5560826, 5560827, 5560828, 5560829.