1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Boise, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 1, 1:43 AM PST, 4 hours 17 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST IDAHO/SOUTHEAST OREGON AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO 243 AM MST FRI FEB 1 2002 INCOMING SHORT WAVE TROUGH HAS WEAKENED OVERNIGHT BUT AT LEAST LIGHT SNOW STARTED AT BKE AND BNO. ALL MODEL GUIDANCE LIGHT ON PCPN AMOUNTS DESPITE SAPIX SHOWING WAVE FORMING IN WATER VAPOR IMAGERY IN SERN OREGON. HAVE CANCELLED SNOW ADVISORIES THROUGHOUT CWA... NOW EXPECTING 3 INCHES IN NRN MOUNTAINS AND FAVORED AREAS OF BAKER COUNTY WITH ISOLATED 3-5 INCH SNOWS ON SOME WEST FACING SLOPES. SRN OREGON ZONES WILL HAVE A DUSTING TO AN INCH WHILE SCENTRAL IDAHO ZONES WILL BE LUCKY TO GET FLURRIES. CLEARING W-E LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT LEADING TO SLIGHTLY COLDER MIN TEMPS SATURDAY MORNING. WEAK DISTURBANCE PASSES THROUGH NRN-MOST ZONES 12Z SATURDAY FOR CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS. MOST OTHER AREAS IN CWA WILL SEE SUNSHINE SATURDAY. RELATIVELY COLD SATURDAY NIGHT UNDER CLEAR SKIES...WILL ALSO ADD IN PATCHY FOG IN THE VALLEYS. VIGOROUS BUT FAST MOVING N PACIFIC STORM WILL BRING COUPLE OF HOURS OF SNOW MAINLY TO NRN ZONES SUNDAY MORNING...RAPIDLY CLEARING SUNDAY AFTERNOON. EXTENDED...NEW MRF SHOWS DRY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY...CHANCE OF PCPN TUE AND THU. WILL CONTINUE CURRENT FORECAST WITH DRY MONDAY AND CHANCE OF PCPN DAILY TUE THROUGH THU...I.E., WONT TRY TO SINGLE OUT WED TO BE DRY. L COLIN .BOI...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
A Pacific storm system dropped 3 to 5 inches of snow across Baker County with local snowfall amounts of 6 to 8 inches in northeast Baker County.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, February 2002
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