High Wind, Clatsop/Tillamook
- When
- December 12, 1:00 PM PST to December 13, 3:00 AM PST
- Where
- Clatsop/Tillamook forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
High Wind in Oregon, December 12 to 13, 1998
Another Pacific storm caused winds of 45 mph with gusts to 65 mph at Netarts, a gust to 61 mph in Seaside, and sustained winds of 55 mph at Tillamook.
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.
Another Pacific storm caused winds of 45 mph with gusts to 65 mph at Netarts, a gust to 61 mph in Seaside, and sustained winds of 55 mph at Tillamook.
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
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, December 1998
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: 5677675.