High Wind, South Coast
- When
- December 30, 11:00 AM PST to December 31, 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- South Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 35 kt (40 mph)
Strong winds continued to buffet the South Washington Coast with sustained winds of 40 mph at Cape Disappointment.
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 PQR wrote it up.
Strong winds continued to buffet the South Washington Coast with sustained winds of 40 mph at Cape Disappointment.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, December 1996
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