High Wind, Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry
- When
- February 20, 3:00 PM PST
- Where
- Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry forecast zone
- Measured
- 63 kt (72 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Cape Blanco winds 34KT gusting to 63KT.
High Wind in Oregon, February 20, 1999
Yet another winter storm brought high winds to the South Oregon coast. The High Wind Warning was issued at 0649 LST and cancelled at 2025 LST.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
Yet another winter storm brought high winds to the South Oregon coast. The High Wind Warning was issued at 0649 LST and cancelled at 2025 LST. Warning criteria were met at Cape Blanco from 1400-1700LST and at Gold Beach 1600-1700 LST.
Event by event
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry
- When
- February 20, 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry forecast zone
- Measured
- 39 kt (45 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Gold Beach winds 39KT gusting to 50KT.
High Wind, Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry
- When
- February 20, 5:00 PM PST
- Where
- Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry forecast zone
- Measured
- 38 kt (44 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Cape Blanco winds 38KT gusting to 54KT.
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 Surf in California, February 20, 1999
- High Wind in Oregon, February 20 to 22, 1999
- Winter Storm in California, February 20 to 21, 1999
- Winter Storm in California, February 20 to 21, 1999
- Heavy Snow and High Wind in California, February 20 to 21, 1999
- Heavy Snow in California, February 20 to 21, 1999
- Flood in Hawaii, February 20, 1999
- Heavy Snow in California, February 20, 1999
- Flood in Hawaii, February 20, 1999
- High Wind in Washington, February 20, 1999
- Heavy Snow in California, February 20 to 21, 1999
- Heavy Snow in California, February 20 to 21, 1999
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, February 1999
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: 5682132, 5682234, 5682233.