A Pacific frontal system brought heavy snow to the North and Central Cascades of Washington on November 6-7.
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 SEW wrote it up.
A Pacific frontal system brought heavy snow to the North and Central Cascades of Washington on November 6-7.
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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 6, 3:48 PM PST, 12 minutes earlier.
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</html>PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1222 PM PST FRI NOV 06 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1221 PM HAIL 1 E BALLARD 47.67N 122.36W
11/06/2009 E0.25 INCH KING WA TRAINED SPOTTER
HEAVY HAIL SHOWER. HAIL COVERING THE GROUND.
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GRUBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1229 PM PST FRI NOV 06 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1229 PM HAIL 5 ENE BALLARD 47.71N 122.30W
11/06/2009 E0.25 INCH KING WA TRAINED SPOTTER
HEAVY HAIL SHOWER. LESS THAN A QUARTER INCH. HAIL
COVERING THE GROUND.
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GRUBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1232 PM PST FRI NOV 06 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1231 PM HAIL 5 ESE MONTESANO 46.98N 123.50W
11/06/2009 E0.25 INCH GRAYS HARBOR WA TRAINED SPOTTER
HEAVY HAIL SHOWER PASSED THROUGH.
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GRUBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
1247 PM PST FRI NOV 06 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1246 PM HAIL 1 SSE CLEARVIEW 47.82N 122.11W
11/06/2009 M0.50 INCH SNOHOMISH WA TRAINED SPOTTER
HEAVY HAIL SHOWERS STARTING TO COVER THE GROUND. HAIL
SIZE BETWEEN A QUARTER TO HALF INCH.
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</html>2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
NWAC stations at Mt Baker and Stevens Pass recorded more than 18 inches of snow during the warning period.
NWAC stations at Stevens Pass and Crystal reported 18 inches of snow or greater during the warning period.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, November 2009
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: 195922, 195923.