Heavy Snow, Josephine T X Se/Jackson T X S
- When
- May 20, 7:00 AM PST to 12:30 PM PST
- Where
- Josephine T X Se/Jackson T X S forecast zone
Heavy Snow in Oregon, May 20, 1998
An unseasonably cold upper level low parked over southern Oregon produced locally heavy snow near the Siskiyou mountains on the morning of the 20th. Snowfall rates ranged up to three inches per hour, with total accumulations from 6 inches to a foot of new snow.
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 MFR wrote it up.
An unseasonably cold upper level low parked over southern Oregon produced locally heavy snow near the Siskiyou mountains on the morning of the 20th. Snowfall rates ranged up to three inches per hour, with total accumulations from 6 inches to a foot of new snow.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Hail in Iowa, May 20, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, May 20, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 20, 1998
- Lightning Strike in West Virginia, May 20, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, May 20, 1998
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 20, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, May 20 to 21, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 20, 1998
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, May 20, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 20, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, May 20, 1998
- Drought in Louisiana, May 20 to 31, 1998
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, May 1998
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: 5640434.