Heavy Snow, Northern Cascades
- When
- January 1, 7:00 PM PST to January 3, 6:00 PM PST
- Where
- Northern Cascades forecast zone
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Heavy Snow in Oregon, January 1 to 3, 2000
A strong Pacific frontal system brought heavy snow to the Cascade Mountains, the Cascade Foothills, and the Coastal Mountains. In the Cascades snow accumulations included 23 inches at Timberline and Santiam Pass, 25 inches at Mt Hood Meadows, and 19 inches at Blue Box 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.
A strong Pacific frontal system brought heavy snow to the Cascade Mountains, the Cascade Foothills, and the Coastal Mountains. In the Cascades snow accumulations included 23 inches at Timberline and Santiam Pass, 25 inches at Mt Hood Meadows, and 19 inches at Blue Box Pass. In the Foothills, Marion Forks accumulated 11 inches, and in the Coastal Mountains Buxton had 6 inches and Sunset 2 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
- Winter Storm in Utah, January 1 to 3, 2000
- Heavy Snow in California, January 1, 2000
- Drought in New Mexico, January 1 to 31, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, January 1 to 2, 2000
- Drought in Hawaii, January 1 to 31, 2000
- Winter Storm in Colorado, January 1, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Montana, January 1 to 2, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, January 1, 2000
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, January 1 to 2, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Arizona, January 1, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, January 1 to 2, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Utah, January 1 to 2, 2000
More
Every storm in Oregon in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, January 2000
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: 5131078.