High Wind, Northern Oregon Cascades
- When
- October 18, 1:00 PM PST to October 19, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Northern Oregon Cascades forecast zone
- Measured
- 32 kt (37 mph)
High Wind in Oregon, October 18 to 19, 1996
Winds gusting to 35 mph caused scattered power outages and fell trees in Union County and Wallowa County. In Wallowa County a falling tree severely damaged a mobile home.
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.
Winds gusting to 35 mph caused scattered power outages and fell trees in Union County and Wallowa County. In Wallowa County a falling tree severely damaged a mobile home. At the Union County Airport sustained winds were recorded at 25 mph with gusts to 35 mph.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire in California, October 18 to November 10, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Ohio, October 18, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, October 18, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, October 18, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, October 18, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, October 18, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, October 18, 1996
- Hail in Alabama, October 18, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, October 18 to 19, 1996
- Heavy Rain in Virginia, October 18, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, October 18, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, October 18, 1996
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, October 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5572331.