Heavy Snow — Lower Garfield & Asotin, Washington

2019-02-19 to 2019-02-20 · Lower Garfield & Asotin, Washington

Event narrative

A member of the public near Clarkston reported 5.0 inches of new snow accumulation from this storm.

Wider weather episode

From the afternoon of February 19th through the morning of February 20th portions of southeast Washington came under a band of wrap-around light snow from a low pressure system passing through Oregon. The Blue Mountains and the Palouse region received heavy snow accumulations from this storm system with only light accumulations over the Columbia Basin and little or no snow noted across northeast Washington.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 806298. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.