Heavy Snow, Northeast Mountains
- When
- January 6, 5:00 AM PST to 7:00 PM PST
- Where
- Northeast Mountains forecast zone
- Reported by
- Amateur Radio
- Coordinates
- 48.184, -117.511 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Snow in Washington, January 6, 2009
A very moist warm front passage resulted in heavy snow accumulations to the northeast Washington Mountains. Five inches of snow fell in Newport.
Where it happened
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- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS OTX wrote it up.
A very moist warm front passage resulted in heavy snow accumulations to the northeast Washington Mountains. Five inches of snow fell in Newport.
What forecasters said that day
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 Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 6, 2:59 AM PST, 2 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 6, 2:59 AM PST, 2 hours 1 minute before
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The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Alabama, January 6 to 7, 2009
- Ice Storm and Winter Weather in Connecticut, January 6 to 7, 2009
- Winter Weather in Illinois, January 6, 2009
- Flooding and Heavy Rain in Washington, January 6 to 8, 2009
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, January 6, 2009
- Tornadoes and Flooding in Georgia, January 6 to 11, 2009
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Washington, January 6 to 7, 2009
- Ice Storm in Pennsylvania, January 6 to 7, 2009
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in New York, January 6 to 8, 2009
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, January 6, 2009
- Winter Storm and High Wind in Wyoming, January 6 to 8, 2009
- High Wind in Wyoming, January 6 to 8, 2009
More
Every storm in Washington in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, January 2009
Sources
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 150931.