Heavy Snow in Wallowa County, Oregon

Heavy Snow December 11, 2022 – December 12, 2022 · Wallowa County, Oregon

What the National Weather Service wrote

A trained spotter 5 miles east of Joseph, OR measured 7 inches of new snow in a 24 hour period ending at 0945 PST on Dec. 12th. Via a public report 1 mile west northwest of Enterprise, OR, 6 inches of new snow fell in a 24 hour period ending at 1000 on Dec. 12th.

The wider storm

A deep upper level cut-off low and secondary low-level circulations resulted in bands of moderate to heavy snow developing over central Oregon on the 11th, then advecting east over Wallowa County in the overnight hours of the 11th and morning of the 12th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1073219. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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