1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
A late season snowstorm brought very heavy amounts of snow to the Blue Mountains at elevations above 4000 feet. 18 inches of wet snow fell over 24 hours at Tollgate (5200 feet) and 12 inches fell at another location 4 miles west (4300 feet). State Highway 204 was closed for several hours as road crews cleared downed trees.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, May 2000
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: 5143138.