as low as 1200 feet or so. The heavy snow warning was issued for elevations above 1500 feet at 0402 LST and cancelled at 1150 LST.
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.
The episode as NWS MFR wrote it up.
An unusually cold and wet storm dumped quite a bit of snow in the Rogue Basin...as low as 1200 feet or so. The heavy snow warning was issued for elevations above 1500 feet at 0402 LST and cancelled at 1150 LST.
4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
3 spotters in Ashland reported 7-8" snow, other spotters reported 5"at Talent and Prospect.
Spotter JA07 in Butte Falls reported 7" snow overnight.
Spotter JA40 reported 6" snow 00-08 LST.
Spotter JA48 1 SW Griffin Creek 9.5" snow overnight.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, February 1999
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: 5684066, 5684067, 5684068, 5684069.