Heavy Snow, Baker
- When
- December 15, 9:00 PM PST to December 16, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- Baker forecast zone
During the night of December 15-16, 5 inches of new snow fell at Sumpter, Oregon.
Heavy Snow in Oregon, December 15 to 16, 1997
1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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
- Flood in Florida, December 15 to 31, 1997
- Winter Storm in Florida, December 15, 1997
- Flash Flooding in Florida, December 15, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 15 to 18, 1997
- Dense Fog in Indiana, December 15, 1997
- High Wind in Washington, December 15, 1997
- High Wind in Oregon, December 15 to 16, 1997
- Flood in Florida, December 15 to 31, 1997
- High Wind in Nevada, December 15, 1997
- Waterspout in Florida, December 15, 1997
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, December 1997
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: 5620066.