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 6, 7:25 AM PST, 5 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 725 AM PST THU MAR 6 2003...CORRECT POP WINTER WEATHER WARNINGS AND ADVISORY STILL ON TRACK FOR TODAY WITH SNOW CONTINUING TO FALL IN THOSE AREAS. THE REST OF THE PDT AREA WILL HAVE ISOLATED TO SCATTERED RAIN AND SNOW AS THE CURRENT WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES THROUGH THE NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. MAIN CONCERN THIS FORECAST IS WIND SPEEDS IN THE BASIN/FOOTHILLS FOR THIS AFTERNOON. 300MB WIND OVER THE REGION 120+...700MB WINDS >50...HOWEVER...850MB WINDS ONLY BORDERLINE FOR WARNING CRITERIA... PRESSURE GRADIENT FALLS JUST SHORT AND SATELLITE IMAGERY NOT SHOWING GOOD JET DARKENING. BELIEVE WINDS WILL REMAIN BELOW CRITERIA IN THE YAKIMA AND KITTITAS VALLEYS AND THE GORGE AREA...SO WILL NOT UPGRADE THE WATCH TO A WARNING THERE. OVER THE BASIN AND FOOTHILLS IT WILL BE CLOSE. MAY NEED TO UPDATE TO A HIGH WIND WARNING IN THOSE LOCATIONS. THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES IN ON FRIDAY FOR CONTINUED UNSETTLED WEATHER. MJB. EXTENDED...A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM NEAR NORTHERN BC WILL REMAIN RELATIVELY STATIONARY THROUGH MONDAY. IN ASSOCIATION WITH THIS LOW...A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION ON SATURDAY... FOLLOWED BY A COLD FRONT ON SUNDAY. THE LOW WILL BEGIN TO MOVE EASTWARD AND WEAK RIDGING WILL BUILD IN OVER THE PAC NW THROUGH TUESDAY. JR PDT 224 ALW 224 PSC 223 YKM 223 .KPDT...A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THE EAST SLOPES OF THE WASHINGTON CASCADES AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON THROUGH TONIGHT... ...A SNOW ADVISORY FOR WALLOWA COUNTY THROUGH TONIGHT... ...A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR TODAY FOR THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE...AND THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON...
ORZ041>050-WAZ024>030-071300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 500 AM PST THU MAR 6 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON AS WELL AS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON .DAY ONE...TODAY A STRONG WINTER WEATHER SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TODAY. THIS SYTEM WILL CONTINUE TO BRING MOUNTAIN SNOW AND HIGH WINDS TO THE AREA. HIGH WIND WARNINGS... WINTER STORM WARNINGS AND ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN ISSUED. SEE PDXNPWPDT AND PDXWSWPDT FOR DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...STRONG WINDS AND ANOTHER ROUND OF SNOW IS EXPECTED ON SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
26 inches of snow fell in the city of Easton in 24 hours ending at 7:30 am on March 7th. Other snow reports included 18 inches in Rosyln in a 24 hour period, and 14 inches of snow one mile east of Cle Elum.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, March 2003
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: 5347896.