Heavy Snow, Blue Mountains
- When
- March 4, 7:00 PM PST to March 5, 6:00 AM PST
- Where
- Blue Mountains forecast zone
- Reported by
- UNKNOWN
Heavy Snow in Oregon, March 4 to 5, 2000
Heavy snow fell across the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon overnight. Meacham (4000 ft) received 12 inches of snow according to an Oregon Dept.
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 PDT wrote it up.
Heavy snow fell across the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon overnight. Meacham (4000 ft) received 12 inches of snow according to an Oregon Dept. of Transportation road report. Other snow totals included 10 inches at Ukiah (3350 ft) and 6 inches at Tollgate (5200 ft) .
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
- Flash Flood and Winter Storm in California, March 4 to 6, 2000
- Dense Fog in Kentucky, March 4, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, March 4 to 5, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Washington, March 4 to 5, 2000
- Excessive Heat in Wisconsin, March 4 to 8, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, March 4 to 6, 2000
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, March 4 to 6, 2000
- Hail in South Carolina, March 4, 2000
- Funnel Cloud in California, March 4, 2000
More
Every storm in Oregon in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, March 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: 5135497.