Heavy Snow, Baker
- When
- December 7, 9:00 PM PST to December 8, 7:00 AM PST
- Where
- Baker forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Oregon, December 7 to 8, 1997
A winter storm produced 5 inches of new snow at Sumpter and Unity, Oregon.
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 BOI wrote it up.
A winter storm produced 5 inches of new snow at Sumpter and Unity, Oregon.
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
- Winter Storm in Utah, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Kansas, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Ice Storm in Nebraska, December 7 to 9, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Texas, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Winter Storm and Flooding in California, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Winter Storm in California, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in California, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Winter Storm in Oregon, December 7 to 8, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, December 7, 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: 5620065.