High Wind, Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry
- When
- March 28, 9:00 PM PST
- Where
- Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Cape Arago winds 36KT gusting to 55 KT.
High Wind in Oregon, March 28, 1999
Yet another Pacific storm moved onshore this day. A High Wind Warning for the coastal areas from Florence to Cape Blanco was issued at 1330 PST on 03/28/99 and cancelled at 0600 PST on 03/29/99.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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 Pacific storm moved onshore this day. A High Wind Warning for the coastal areas from Florence to Cape Blanco was issued at 1330 PST on 03/28/99 and cancelled at 0600 PST on 03/29/99. One report meeting High Wind Warning criteria was recieved from Gold Beach...which is south of Cape Blanco.
Event by event
5 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry
- When
- March 28, 9:58 PM PST
- Where
- Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry forecast zone
- Measured
- 63 kt (72 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Cape Blanco winds 47KT gusting to 63KT.
High Wind, Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry
- When
- March 28, 10:00 PM PST
- Where
- Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry forecast zone
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Cape Arago winds 33KT gusting to 56 KT.
High Wind, Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry
- When
- March 28, 11:00 PM PST
- Where
- Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry forecast zone
- Measured
- 66 kt (76 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Cape Blanco winds 43KT gusting to 66KT.
High Wind, Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry
- When
- March 28, 11:00 PM PST
- Where
- Nw Douglas/Coos/Curry forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
Gold Beach winds 40KT gusting to 55KT.
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 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, March 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: 5686896, 5686898, 5686897, 5686899, 5686900.