High Wind, Lower Columbia Basin
- When
- March 30, 12:00 PM PST to 7:00 PM PST
- Where
- Lower Columbia Basin forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 46.220, -119.419 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Washington, March 30, 1997
Three tent trailers blew off their bases at a RV sales lot. Two were destroyed and the other was damaged.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 PDT wrote it up.
Three tent trailers blew off their bases at a RV sales lot. Two were destroyed and the other was damaged. Several trees...power poles and street signs blew down.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- High Wind in Washington, March 30, 1997
- High Wind in Oregon, March 30, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, March 30, 1997
- Hail in Texas, March 30, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, March 30, 1997
- High Wind in Idaho, March 30, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, March 30, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, March 30, 1997
- Flood in South Dakota, March 30 to 31, 1997
- Hail in Arkansas, March 30, 1997
- Hail in Arkansas, March 30, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, March 30, 1997
More
Every storm in Washington in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, March 1997
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: 5600731.