Flood, Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry
- When
- November 21, 7:45 AM PST to November 27, 4:00 AM PST
- Where
- Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
See below.
Flood in Oregon, November 21 to 27, 1998
A series of wet Pacific winter storms dumped quite a bit of precipitation in the Oregon coastal areas, leading to an extended flood episode along the Coquille River. Flood readings are as follows: 11/22 11/23 11/24 11/25 11/26 11/27 Flood StageN.
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 MFR wrote it up.
A series of wet Pacific winter storms dumped quite a bit of precipitation in the Oregon coastal areas, leading to an extended flood episode along the Coquille River. Flood readings are as follows: 11/22 11/23 11/24 11/25 11/26 11/27 Flood StageN. Fork Coquille@Myrtle Point 35.68 35.00Coquille@Coquille 22.81 21.90 21.83 21.64 21.19 21.59 21.00
Event by event
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire in Virginia, November 21 to 29, 1998
- High Wind in Wyoming, November 21 to 22, 1998
- High Wind in Montana, November 21, 1998
- High Wind in Wyoming, November 21, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, November 21 to 22, 1998
- High Wind in Utah, November 21 to 22, 1998
- High Wind in Colorado, November 21, 1998
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, November 21 to 22, 1998
- Heavy Snow in New York, November 21, 1998
- High Wind in Wyoming, November 21 to 22, 1998
- High Wind in California, November 21, 1998
- High Wind in Nevada, November 21, 1998
More
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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: 5677619.