Debris Flow, Northern Oregon Coast
- When
- April 24, 12:00 AM PST to April 26, 12:00 AM PST
- Where
- Northern Oregon Coast forecast zone
Debris Flow in Oregon, April 24 to 26, 1996
Heavy rains softened hillsides enough to trigger numerous mudslides in the Coast Range of Northwestern Oregon. In Kerry a manufactured home was pushed 200 yards.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PQR wrote it up.
Heavy rains softened hillsides enough to trigger numerous mudslides in the Coast Range of Northwestern Oregon. In Kerry a manufactured home was pushed 200 yards. Buildings were also damaged in Woodson while 3 homes were destroyed by a mudslide in Clatskanie.
Event by event
1 debris flow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Debris Flow
- A fast-moving slurry of mud, rock and debris, usually on a slope soaked by heavy rain or stripped by a fire.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in South Dakota, April 24 to 25, 1996
- High Wind in Idaho, April 24, 1996
- Flood in Idaho, April 24 to 26, 1996
- High Wind in Utah, April 24, 1996
- High Wind in Wyoming, April 24 to 25, 1996
- High Wind in Wyoming, April 24, 1996
- High Wind in South Dakota, April 24, 1996
- High Wind in Colorado, April 24 to 25, 1996
- High Wind in Nebraska, April 24, 1996
- High Wind in Colorado, April 24 to 25, 1996
- High Wind in Montana, April 24, 1996
- Flood in Vermont, April 24, 1996
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, April 1996
Sources
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: 5556960.