Winter Storm, Cascades in Lane County
- When
- February 7, 10:00 AM PST to 6:00 PM PST
- Where
- Cascades in Lane County forecast zone
Winter Storm in Oregon, February 7, 1997
At least a dozen traffic accidents occurred on a streach of highway 97 north of Terrebonne. Four crashed semi-trucks blocked the road for five hours.
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 PDT wrote it up.
At least a dozen traffic accidents occurred on a streach of highway 97 north of Terrebonne. Four crashed semi-trucks blocked the road for five hours. A fire truck and two sanding trucks slid into a guardrail.
Event by event
1 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Winter Storm
- A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, February 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: 5600709.