Heavy Snow, Lower Columbia Basin
- When
- April 13, 4:00 AM PST to 10:00 AM PST
- Where
- Lower Columbia Basin forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Oregon, April 13, 1998
Three to seven and a half inches of snow fell across Wasco and Sherman counties.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Three to seven and a half inches of snow fell across Wasco and Sherman counties.
Event by event
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy Snow, Wasco T Se & X N/W Jefferson
- When
- April 13, 4:00 AM PST to 10:00 AM PST
- Where
- Wasco T Se & X N/W Jefferson forecast zone
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
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- Tornado in Kentucky, April 13, 1998
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- Tornado in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- Tornado in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- Wildfire in Wisconsin, April 13, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 13, 1998
- High Wind in Alaska, April 13 to 14, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 13, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 13, 1998
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: 5636429, 5636430.