Heavy Snow, Central Coast Range of W Oregon
- When
- January 27, 3:00 AM PST to 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- Central Coast Range of W Oregon forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 27, 1996
A low pressure system moved across southern Oregon. This storm track pulled cold low level air from the north over the Willamette Valley and Columbia Gorge.
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 low pressure system moved across southern Oregon. This storm track pulled cold low level air from the north over the Willamette Valley and Columbia Gorge. 7 inches of snow fell on Portland, 5 inches in Hillsboro and Gladstone, and 4 inches in Lake Oswego and Wilsonville.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Central Willamette Valley
- When
- January 27, 3:00 AM PST to 4:00 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
- Flooding in Pennsylvania, January 27 to 28, 1996
- Flooding in New Jersey, January 27 to 31, 1996
- Flooding in Maine, January 27 to 30, 1996
- High Wind in New York, January 27, 1996
- Flooding in New York, January 27, 1996
- High Wind in New York, January 27, 1996
- High Wind in Vermont, January 27, 1996
- Flooding in New York, January 27 to 28, 1996
- High Wind in Maine, January 27 to 28, 1996
- Flooding in New York, January 27 to 28, 1996
- Flash Flood in Virginia, January 27, 1996
- Flood in Connecticut, January 27 to 30, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5560858, 5560859.