Heavy Snow, Greater Portland Metro Area
- When
- March 3, 9:00 PM PST to March 4, 12:00 PM PST
- Where
- Greater Portland Metro Area forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Oregon, March 3 to 4, 1996
Hood Meadows.
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.
Moist onshore flow from a Pacific weather system dumped heavy snow in the northern Oregon Cascades with 5 inches of snow reported at Mt.Hood Meadows.
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
- Heavy Snow in New York, March 3 to 4, 1996
- High Wind in Hawaii, March 3 to 4, 1996
- Flash Flood in Hawaii, March 3, 1996
- High Wind in Hawaii, March 3 to 4, 1996
- Winter Storm in Vermont, March 3, 1996
- High Wind in Maryland, March 3, 1996
- Winter Weather in Massachusetts, March 3, 1996
- High Wind in Florida, March 3, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, March 3, 1996
- Winter Weather in Rhode Island, March 3, 1996
- Winter Weather in Connecticut, March 3, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, March 3 to 5, 1996
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, March 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: 5556764.