Heavy Snow in Oregon, November 19 to 20, 1997

Name: Heavy Snow in Oregon, November 19 to 20, 1997
Start: 1997-11-19T00:00
End: 1997-11-20T10:00
Location: Oregon

November 19 to 20, 1997 · NWS PQR · 1 event in 1 county or zone

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.

Heavy Snow, Se Multnomah/C & S Hood River/E Clakamas/E Marion/E Linn/E Lane

When: November 19, 12:00 AM PST to November 20, 10:00 AM PST
Where: Se Multnomah/C & S Hood River/E Clakamas/E Marion/E Linn/E Lane forecast zone

Heavy snow in the Cascades accompanied the months strongest storm. Timberline Lodge on Mt. Hood in the Northern Oregon cascades reported 9 inches of new snow from this storm.

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

Every storm in Oregon in 1997 Every state in 1997 This day in weather history Warnings in Oregon, November 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: 5625478.