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 Feb 3, 8:30 PM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 830 PM PST SAT FEB 03 2001 A WARM FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH A SYSTEM OFFSHORE IS NOW AT THE CREST OF THE OREGON CASCADES AND IS BEGINNING TO MOVE NORTHEASTWARD INTO THE FORECAST AREA. ONSET OF WARM FRONT PRECIPITATION IS A LITTLE FASTER THAN ANTICIPATED...SO WILL INCREASE POPS TO THE CHANCE CATEGORY FOR LATE TONIGHT IN CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL OREGON...THE LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN...THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. LIGHT RAIN SHOULD COMMENCE BY LATE EVENING IN WESTERN SECTIONS OF FORECAST AREA AND AFTER MIDNIGHT IN THE EASTERN SECTIONS. OTHERWISE REMAINDER OF FORECAST LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK FOR THE SECOND THROUGH THE FOURTH PERIODS OF THE FORECAST. SNOW LEVELS WILL REMAIN AROUND 6000 FEET IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS AND THE OREGON AND WASHINGTON CASCADES THROUGH SUNDAY. BECOMING BREEZY SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. POLAN EXTENDED...MODELS CONTINUE TO HAVE A DIFFICULT TIME HANDLING THE EVOLUTION OF AN UPPER RIDGE OVER THE EASTERN PACIFIC AND A TROUGH OVER THE MIDWEST. EVEN THOUGH THERE IS NO CONSENSUS BETWEEN MODELS...EACH IN THEIR OWN WAY MOVES SEVERAL DISTURBANCES THROUGH THE FORECAST AREA TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. AS A RESULT...WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION THROUGH MUCH OF THE EXTENDED...EXCEPT SATURDAY. BY SATURDAY...AFOREMENTIONED RIDGE MOVES EAST JUST ENOUGH TO DIRY THE AREA OUT. EARLE PDT 5652 ALW 5652 PSC 4641 YKM 5630 .KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP32/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...NONE.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
12 inches of snow fell in a 10 hour period in Ronald, which lies at an elevation of 2400 feet 7 miles northwest of Cle Elem.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, February 2001
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