Cold air trapped in the upper reaches of the Yakima and Kittitas Valleys with warm air overspreading aloft brought pockets of freezing rain to the area. In Naches, an empty school bus slid off the road.
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 PDT wrote it up.
Cold air trapped in the upper reaches of the Yakima and Kittitas Valleys with warm air overspreading aloft brought pockets of freezing rain to the area. In Naches, an empty school bus slid off the road. At the accident scene first responders had difficulty standing up on the ice covered road surface.
1 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Light freezing rain in Naches. A school bus slid off the highway. No injuries were reported.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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