Heavy Snow in Washington, March 2 to 3, 1999

Name: Heavy Snow in Washington, March 2 to 3, 1999
Start: 1999-03-02T20:00
End: 1999-03-03T09:00
Location: Washington

March 2 to 3, 1999 · NWS PDT · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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.

Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, East Slopes Southern Cascades

When: March 2, 8:00 PM PST to March 3, 9:00 AM PST
Where: East Slopes Southern Cascades forecast zone
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER

A late winter storm dropped varying amounts of snow along the east slopes of the Cascades overnight. White Pass (4500 feet elevation) received 6 inches of snow, Snoqualmie Pass (3022 feet elevation) 4 inches, and both Glenwood (1968 feet elevation) and Easton Ridge (2800 feet elevation) received 2 inches.

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

Every storm in Washington in 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history Warnings in Washington, March 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: 5691474.