Avalanche, Central Cascade Foothills
- When
- January 11, 12:00 PM PST
- Where
- Central Cascade Foothills forecast zone
- Deaths
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
Avalanche in Washington, January 11, 1997
An avalanche killed 3 hikers. The hikers left on Dec.
The toll
- Deaths
- 3
- 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 SEW wrote it up.
An avalanche killed 3 hikers. The hikers left on Dec. 27th, didn't return on the 29th as expected and weren't found until Jan 11th. They were found buried in an avalanche near Index.
Event by event
1 avalanche. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Avalanche
- A mass of snow sliding down a mountainside that caused a death, an injury or damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Blizzard in Utah, January 11 to 14, 1997
- Winter Storm in New Mexico, January 11 to 14, 1997
- Cold in New Mexico, January 11, 1997
- Cold in North Carolina, January 11, 1997
- Winter Storm in Texas, January 11 to 14, 1997
- Winter Weather in Oklahoma, January 11 to 12, 1997
- Winter Weather in New Jersey, January 11, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 11 to 14, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Texas, January 11 to 12, 1997
- Cold in Colorado, January 11 to 12, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Massachusetts, January 11, 1997
- Cold in Nebraska, January 11 to 12, 1997
More
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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: 5585220.