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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 15, 2:30 PM PST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 230 PM PST THU MAR 15 2001 NEGATIVE TILTED TROUGH CONTINUES TO SLIDE INTO THE PAC NW THIS AFTERNOON. LEADING EDGE OF FRONTAL PRECIP HAS SPREADS THROUGH MUCH OF EASTERN OREGON AT THIS TIME WITH MOUNTAIN SNOW AND LOWER ELEVATION RAIN. BACK EDGE OF FRONT STILL MOVING THROUGH WESTERN WA AND APPROACHING THE CASCADES. IT WILL TAKE 6-8 MORE HOURS FOR FRONT TO MOVE THROUGH WESTERN KPDT ZONES WHILE EASTERN ZONES WILL EXPERIENCE PRECIP THROUGH MUCH OF THE NIGHT. TROUGH'S EASTWARD PROGRESSION IS BEING SLOWED BY A 140KT JET DIGGING ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE TROUGH. THIS WILL AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME CYCLOGENESIS OVER EASTERN WA THIS AFTERNOON THAT THEN DIVES INTO SOUTHERN IDAHO EARLY FRIDAY. THIS WILL MAINLY IMPACT NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS WITH A PROLONGED PERIOD OF UPSLOPE FLOW AND LIFT GENERATED BY THIS. EXPECT 4-8 INCHES OF SNOW ALONG NORTHWEST FACING SLOPES OF THE BLUES BY MORNING SO WILL ISSUE SNOW ADVISORY. REST OF MOUNTAIN ZONES WILL SEE SNOW BUT TOTALS REMAINING BELOW ADVISORY LEVELS. WEAK RIDGING IN THE EASTERN PAC WILL PRODUCE NORTHWEST FLOW USHERING IN DRIER AIR FRIDAY WITH JUST SOME LINGERING SNOW SHOWERS IN THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS. NEXT SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE COAST LATE FRIDAY WITH SOME WARM AIR ADVECTION PRECIP. WESTERN ZONES COULD SEE SOME PRECIP FRIDAY NIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT WHICH WOULD SPREAD ACROSS ALL ZONES SATURDAY. EXTENDED...THERE WILL BE A WEAK RIDGE SUNDAY WITH TWO WEAK SHORT WAVES MOVING THROUGH IT PRODUCING SHOWER ACTIVITY. THE BEST VORTICITY AND LIFT IS OVER WA ZONES BUT ENOUGH IS OVER OREGON TO PRODUCE A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. A BROAD TROUGH IS OVER THE AREA MONDAY WITH A FRONT BRINGING IN COOLER TEMPERATURES AND BREEZY CONDITIONS TO THE COLUMBIA BASIN AND THE BLUES. IT IS TOO EARLY TO PINPOINT THE EXACT AREA SINCE WINDS ARE DEPENDENT ON GRADIENT THAT IS LIKELLY TO FLUCUATE ON AN EXTENDED FORECAST. A STRONG RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE CWA TUEASDAY THROUGH THURSDAY BRINGING MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES AND GRADUALLY WARMING TEMPERATURES. COONFIELD PDT 8103 ALW 8103 PSC 8003 YKM 4003 .FKPDT...WSR-88D...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT FOR BLUE MOUNTAINS...
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Overnight snow in the Blue Mountains brought hazardous conditions that forced the closure of Interstate-84 near Meacham between 3 and 4 am on the 16th. Several semi-trucks spun out on snow covered roads beginning around 1:30 am. At Meacham, 5 inches of snow fell overnight..
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, March 2001
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: 5236267.