This was a missed event. No warnings or advisories were in effect.
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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.
This was a missed event. No warnings or advisories were in effect. The belt of heavy snow appeared to be limited to the Cascades (where the snow amounts did not meet warning criteria) and a strip just east of the Cascades.
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 Jan 26, 8:45 PM PST, 8 hours 38 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST OREGON AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD, OR
845 PM PST WED JAN 26 2004
.DISCUSSION...IR SHOWS THICK CLOUD COVER OVERSPREADING THE REGION
TONIGHT. RADAR ALSO SHOWING A LITTLE MORE ECHOES NOW. SO CLOUDY WITH
LIGHT RAIN AT TIMES LOOKS GOOD...ESPECIALLY CASCADES WESTWARD. SHUD
SEE A BREAK EARLY THU AS UPR RIDGE BUILDS AHEAD OF NEXT SYSTEM.
STRONG COLD FRONT/VORT MOVES THRU LATE THU NIGHT/FRI MORNING WITH
GUSTY WINDS AND LIKELY A PERIOD OF HEAVY RAIN. PRECIP TAPERS TO
SHOWERS LATER FRI WITH LOWERING SNOW LEVELS.
&&
.MFR...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OR...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY.
HIGH WIND WATCH HEADLANDS OF ORZ021-022 THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT ORZ027 ABOVE 4500 FT.
CA...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY.
&&HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 630 AM PST MON JAN 26 2004 CAZ080>085-ORZ021>031-PZZ350-353-356-370-373-376-271430- CAPE ARAGO TO FLORENCE, OR 20 TO 60 NM- CAPE ARAGO TO FLORENCE, OR WESTWARD 20 NM- CAPE BLANCO TO CAPE ARAGO, OR 20 TO 60 NM- CAPE BLANCO TO CAPE ARAGO, OR WESTWARD 20 NM- CENTRAL AND EASTERN LAKE COUNTY-CENTRAL DOUGLAS COUNTY- CENTRAL SISKIYOU COUNTY-CURRY COUNTY COAST- EASTERN CURRY COUNTY AND JOSEPHINE COUNTY- EASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY FOOTHILLS-JACKSON COUNTY-KLAMATH BASIN- MODOC COUNTY-NORTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST SISKIYOU COUNTY- NORTHEAST SISKIYOU AND NORTHWEST MODOC COUNTIES- NORTHERN AND EASTERN KLAMATH COUNTY AND WESTERN LAKE COUNTY- PT. ST. GEORGE, CA TO CAPE BLANCO, OR 20 TO 60 NM- PT. ST. GEORGE, CA TO CAPE BLANCO, OR WESTWARD 20 NM- SISKIYOU MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHERN OREGON CASCADES- SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON CASCADES-SOUTH CENTRAL OREGON COAST- SOUTH CENTRAL SISKIYOU COUNTY-WESTERN SISKIYOU COUNTY- 630 AM PST MON JAN 26 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHERN OREGON AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. JACOBS
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Spotter KL75 near Chiloquin recorded 11 inches of snow between 1500 PST on 1/26 and 0500 PST on 1/27.
The cooperative observer at Chiloquin recorded 10 inches of snow in 24 hours.
The cooperative observer at Chemult recorded a 24 hour total of 10.5 inches of snow.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, January 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5381099, 5381098, 5381100.