Heavy Snow in Oregon, December 23, 1997

Deaths

0

Injuries

5

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.

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.

• Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, December 23 to 24, 19971 death · 1 event
• Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, December 23, 1997$143,000 · 1.75 in hail · 19 events
• Winter Storm in Utah, December 23 to 25, 19972 injured · $80,000 · 15 events
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, December 23, 1997$70,000 · 1 in hail · 3 events
• Damaging Wind in Louisiana, December 23, 1997$75,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Wind in Louisiana, December 23, 1997$75,000 · 1 event
• Heavy Snow in Texas, December 23 to 24, 1997$50,000 · 6 events
• Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, December 23, 1997$50,000 · 0.88 in hail · 2 events
• Flash Flood in Alaska, December 23 to 31, 1997$50,000 · 1 event
• Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, December 23 to 24, 199717 events
• Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, December 23, 199716 events
• Damaging Wind in Texas, December 23, 1997$20,000 · 1 event

Every storm in Oregon in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, December 1997

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: 5619662.