Heavy Snow, Northern Oregon Coast
- When
- January 23, 4:00 PM PST to January 24, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Northern Oregon Coast forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 23 to 24, 1996
A moist Pacific weather system spread heavy snow into the coast mountains of northwestern Oregon. 8 inches fell at Sunset Summit and 6 inches fell at Wilson River Summit.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 moist Pacific weather system spread heavy snow into the coast mountains of northwestern Oregon. 8 inches fell at Sunset Summit and 6 inches fell at Wilson River Summit.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Tornadoes in Louisiana, January 23, 1996
- Flooding in Ohio, January 23 to 30, 1996
- Flood in California, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Flooding in Kentucky, January 23 to 30, 1996
- High Wind in Tennessee, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Winter Storm in Idaho, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Winter Weather in Wisconsin, January 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Blizzard in Wyoming, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, January 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, January 23 to 24, 1996
- Winter Storm in California, January 23 to 24, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5560846.