Heavy Snow, Northern Cascades
- When
- December 6, 2:00 AM PST to December 7, 12:00 PM PST
- Where
- Northern Cascades forecast zone
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Heavy Snow in Oregon, December 6 to 7, 1999
A strong pacific frontal system brought heavy snows to the Cascades. Timberline got 22 inches, Mt Hood Meadows 18 inches, Bennett Pass and Santiam Pass 16 inches.
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 PQR wrote it up.
A strong pacific frontal system brought heavy snows to the Cascades. Timberline got 22 inches, Mt Hood Meadows 18 inches, Bennett Pass and Santiam Pass 16 inches.
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
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, December 1999
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: 5724067.