Heavy Snow, Northern Cascades
- When
- January 20, 8:00 AM PST to January 21, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Northern Cascades forecast zone
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 20 to 21, 1999
The biggest snow storm of the month, and one of the heaviest of this snowy season, dumped 29 inches of new snow at Santiam Pass, 27 inches at Mt Hood Meadows, 17 inches at Timberline Lodge, and 15 inches at Government Camp and Willamette Pass. Avalanches closed several passes during and after this storm, and rarely used avalanche control measures were employed at Santiam Pass .
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.
The biggest snow storm of the month, and one of the heaviest of this snowy season, dumped 29 inches of new snow at Santiam Pass, 27 inches at Mt Hood Meadows, 17 inches at Timberline Lodge, and 15 inches at Government Camp and Willamette Pass. Avalanches closed several passes during and after this storm, and rarely used avalanche control measures were employed at Santiam Pass .
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
- Winter Storm in Utah, January 20 to 22, 1999
- Dense Fog in Michigan, January 20, 1999
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 20 to 22, 1999
- Blizzard and Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 20 to 24, 1999
- Dense Fog in Florida, January 20, 1999
- Winter Weather in South Dakota, January 20, 1999
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 20 to 22, 1999
- Cold in Alaska, January 20 to 21, 1999
- High Wind in Alaska, January 20 to 21, 1999
- Heavy Snow in California, January 20 to 21, 1999
- High Wind in Oregon, January 20, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Nevada, January 20 to 21, 1999
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, January 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: 5689614.