Heavy Snow, Northern Oregon Cascades
- When
- November 16, 2:30 PM PST to November 17, 8:00 PM PST
- Where
- Northern Oregon Cascades forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Oregon, November 16 to 17, 1996
Moist onshore Pacific flow brought heavy early season snow to the North Oregon Cascades. Santiam Pass received 21 inches, the Mount Hood area 7 inches.
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 Pacific flow brought heavy early season snow to the North Oregon Cascades. Santiam Pass received 21 inches, the Mount Hood area 7 inches.
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 Idaho, November 16 to 21, 1996
- Coastal Flood in Texas, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Coastal Flood in Louisiana, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, November 16, 1996
- Blizzard in Minnesota, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Winter Storm in South Dakota, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, November 16, 1996
- Blizzard in North Dakota, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Heavy Snow in South Dakota, November 16, 1996
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, November 16 to 17, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, November 16, 1996
- Flooding in Kansas, November 16 to 19, 1996
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, November 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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5578388.