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 Nov 24, 2:35 AM PST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
235 AM PST SAT NOV 24 2001
AN UPPER LOW WILL DEVELOP OFF THE WASHINGTON COAST TODAY AND DIG
SOUTHEAST THIS AFTERNOON. PRECIPITATION WILL DEVELOP OVER OUR
SOUTHERN ZONES THIS MORNING AS WARM AIR ADVECTION SPREADS NORTH.
THIS AREA OF PRECIPITATION WILL MOVE OVER THE REMAINDER OF THE
FORECAST AREA LATER TODAY. SNOW LEVELS WILL RANGE FROM NEAR 3000
FEET OVER THE WASHINGTON CASCADES TO NEAR 4000 FEET OVER THE
DESCHUTES PLATEAU. THE SNOW LEVELS WILL SLOWLY FALL THROUGH TONIGHT
AS COLD AIR ADVECTION COMBINES WITH EVAPORATIVE COOLING. 25-30 KNOT
UPSLOPE FLOW WILL DEVELOP OVER THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CASCADES TODAY
AND WILL AID IN ENHANCING PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS THERE. THE UPPER
LOW WILL SLOWLY MOVE OVER WASHINGTON TONIGHT AND PRODUCE UPSLOPE
FLOW OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. GIVEN THE SLOW MOVEMENT OF THIS
SYSTEM...SNOW TOTALS WILL LIKELY REACH WARNING CRITERIA BY SUNDAY
OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. WITH THE TRACK OF THE UPPER LOW REMAINING
FARTHER WEST AND PRIMARILY OVER WASHINGTON...BELIEVE WALLOWA COUNTY
WILL ESCAPE THE THREAT OF HEAVY SNOW THIS TIME AROUND. THEREFORE...
WILL REMOVE WALLOWA COUNTY FROM THE WINTER STORM WATCH. THE SYSTEM
WILL WEAKEN AS IT EJECTS NORTHEAST SUNDAY NIGHT. BY MONDAY...DRIER
AIR ALOFT SHOULD REMOVE THE THREAT OF PRECIPITATION FOR MUCH OF THE
AREA. EARLE
.EXTENDED...THE AREA WILL REMAIN IN DRY NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT TUESDAY
BETWEEN SYSTEMS. THE NEXT SYSTEM WILL MOVE IN WEDNESDAY...FOLLOWED
BY MORE DISTURBANCES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THURSDAY MAY BE A LITTLE
WARMER THAN THE OTHER DAYS AS THERE IS NOT AS MUCH COLD AIR ALOFT ON
THE CURRENT RUN OF THE MRF...BUT WILL NOT JUMP ON THIS BECAUSE
YESTERDAY THE MRF SHOWED MORE COLD AIR THURSDAY THAN ON OTHER
DAYS. COONFIELD
PDT 6+7 ALW 6+7 PSC 684 YKM 7+4
.KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP32/CSR21...OPERATIONAL.
.KPDT...HEAVY SNOW WARNING FOR OREGON ZONES 42 43 AND 48 TODAY
AND TONIGHT.
SNOW ADVISORY FOR WASHINGTON ZONE 25 TODAY AND TONIGHT.
WINTER STORM WATCH FOR OREGON ZONES 46 AND WASHINGTON ZONE
30 FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY.1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Central Oregon received its first heavy snow of the season over Thanksgiving weekend. Sunriver, at an elevation of 4200 feet, received 9 inches. Bend (4000 feet) had 6 inches. La Pine (4300 feet) received 11 inches, which was the highest amount for the whole region.
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, November 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: 5272747.