A series of winter systems starting with a strong arctic front followed by an upper level trough brought heavy snow accumulations and very cold temperatures across the mountains and many lower elevation locations across northeast Oregon and southeast Washington between Jan. 10th and the 14th.
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
A series of winter systems starting with a strong arctic front followed by an upper level trough brought heavy snow accumulations and very cold temperatures across the mountains and many lower elevation locations across northeast Oregon and southeast Washington between Jan. 10th and the 14th.
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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 11, 10:06 AM PST, 20 hours 24 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
A Cocorahs observer measured 4.5 inches of new snow at 0700 on Jan 12th. A public report 3 miles south southwest of College Place indicated that 4 inches of new snow fell between the 12th and the 13th of January.
A Cocorahs observer 6 miles north northwest of Lyle measured 8 inches of new snow at 1630 PST on Jan. 13th. A public report from Trout Lake measured 9 inches of new snow at 2200 PST on Jan. 13th.
A public report from 5 miles north of White Salmon indicated that 8 inches of storm total snow had fell at 2300 PST on Jan. 13th. A Cocorahs observer in White Salmon reported 8 inches of new snow at 0700 PST on Jan. 14th, with radar estimated time of snow ending between 2200-2300 on the 13th.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, January 2024
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: 1162291, 1162282, 1162296.