A Snow Advisory was issued for this area above 4000 feet at 1712 PST on 02/29 and cancelled at 0535 PST on 03/01. This report verified a Heavy Snow Warning, it was the only such report received.
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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 episode as NWS MFR wrote it up.
A Snow Advisory was issued for this area above 4000 feet at 1712 PST on 02/29 and cancelled at 0535 PST on 03/01. This report verified a Heavy Snow Warning, it was the only such report received.
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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 1, 2:55 AM PST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST OREGON AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD, OR
255 AM PST MON MAR 1 2004
.DISCUSSION...UPPER LOW SPINNING DOWN THE OREGON COAST THIS MORNING
WILL TRACK RIGHT OVER SOUTHWEST OREGON BY LATE MORNING...AND
CONTINUE SOUTH INTO CALIFORNIA TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY. COLD AIR
ALOFT WITHIN THE LOW NOT TOO THREATENING AT -28C AT 500 MB. THE MAIN
BAND OF PRECIP OUT AHEAD OF THE LOW ASSOCIATED WITH THE BAROCLINIC
ZONE AND GOOD UPPER DIFLUENCE IS RUNNING THROUGH SISKIYOU AND MODOC
COUNTIES AND WILL CONTINUE TO DRIFT SOUTHEAST TODAY AWAY FROM THE
AREA. SHOWERY AND COOL WEATHER EXPECTED. WILL ALLOW SISKIYOU COUNTY
SNOW ADVISORY GO WITH THE MORNING PACKAGE. POPS GRADUALLY DWINDLE
INTO THE EVENING. LITTLE CHANGE WAS MADE TO THE EXISTING FORECAST
THEREAFTER THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. DRIER NORTH FLOW IS ON
TAP TUESDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT WHILE ANOTHER SYSTEM STILL LOOKS ON
TAP TO ARRIVE WEDNESDAY. A PRETTY GOOD ONSHORE PUSH WILL ARRIVE LATER
WEDNESDAY AND LAST INTO THURSDAY WITH STRONG JET ENERGY ALOFT. RAIN
CHANCES HIGHEST OREGON WEST SIDE. LOOKS LIKE LITTLE IF ANY BREAK
BEFORE ANOTHER SIMILAR SYSTEM FOLLOWS BY FRIDAY. MORE ACTIVE ONSHORE
FLOW EXPECTED TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND.
&&
.MFR...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OR...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY...FLORENCE OR TO OR/CA BORDER.
CA...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY...OR/CA BORDER TO PT. ST. GEORGE CA.
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NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
611 AM PST MON MAR 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0611 AM HEAVY SNOW KENO 42.13N 121.93W
03/01/2004 7.00 INCH KLAMATH OR TRAINED SPOTTER
OVERNIGHT TO 6AM.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
A spotter 1 mile north of Happy Camp at 4000 feet reported 6 inches of snow in 12 hours ending at 0800 PST.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in California, March 2004
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5384880.