1 avalanche, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
1 avalanche. Local standard time, as filed.
A man was thrown down a mountainside and temporarily buried by an avalanche while snowmobiling in the Wallowa Mountains near Fish Lake, about fifteen miles north of Halfway. He was able to free all but one leg that was trapped under his machine. His friends came back and were able to free him. He was not hurt.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, February 1998
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: 5634422.