1 rip current, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 27, 2:45 PM PST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA 245 PM PST TUE MAR 27 2001 MAIN FORECAST CHALLENGE FOCUSES ON PRECIP CHANCES TONIGHT AND EARLY WEDNESDAY. ETA AND AVN INITIALIZED FINE COMPARED TO SATELLITE AND SHOW GOOD SIMILARITY THROUGH 60 HRS WITH MAIN DIFFERENCES COMING INTO PLAY WELL NORTH OF THE REGION...MAINLY NORTH OF 3H JET AXIS N PACIFIC AND PAC NW. OVER OUR FCST AREA THOUGH...FEW SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCES NOTED IN MAIN FEATURES. HAVE A SLIGHT PREFERENCE FOR AVN DUE TO BETTER POSITION OF MAIN SFC LOW NEAR SE ALASKA COAST COMPARED TO VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGE AT 18Z. KBHX AND KMAX RADARS SHOW ECHOES CONTINUING TO MOVE ONSHORE OVER WESTERN OR AND NORTHWEST CA...THOUGH PRECIP NOT YET REACHING THE GROUND AT CEC OR ACV/EKA...AS OF 22Z. WARM FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH INLAND MAINLY TO NORTH OF REGION THIS EVENING...FOLLOWED BY A WEAKENING CD FNT DRAGGING OVER TOP OF H5 RIDGE TONIGHT. BEST MID LEVEL LIFT AND LOW LEVEL WAA REMAIN OVER FAR NORTHERN FORECAST AREA AND INTO PACIFIC NW. ETA...AVN...AND MESOETA ALL PRODUCE LIGHT PRECIP TONIGHT AND THROUGH MUCH OF TOMORROW...BUT AVN AMOUNTS APPEAR OVERDONE. WILL CONTINUE WITH LIKELY POPS NORTH TONIGHT...TRENDING RAPIDLY TO SMALL OR NO POPS SOUTH THROUGH WED MORNING...WITH PRECIP CHANCES FALLING TO ZERO DURING THE MORNING. FOR REST OF WEDNESDAY AND BEYOND...H5 RIDGE REBOUNDS WITH WARMING TEMPS ALOFT. RIDGE ALREADY BUILDING NEAR 150W BEHIND THE FRONTAL SYSTEM NOW MOVING ONTO WEST COAST. ALSO...INDICATIONS SEEN THAT SFC THERMAL TROUGH WILL BEGIN TO PUSH NORTHWARD ALONG COAST BY LATER THIS WEEK...AND THE MAIN CHALLENGES THEN SHIFT TO RESULTANT EFFECTS ON COASTAL LOW CLOUDS...AND TEMPERATURES THROUGHOUT FORECAST AREA. IN THE EXTENDED...MRF AND ECMWF GENERALLY FOLLOW AVN TRENDS IN CONTINUING TO BUILD H5 RIDGE OFFSHORE...THOUGH AVN MAY BE A BIT TOO QUICK AND STRONG WITH THIS. MRF ENSEMBLE PRECIP PRODUCTS...ALONG WITH MRF HEIGHT ANOMALIES SUPPORT A DRY FORECAST THOUGH...SO IN COORD WITH SURROUNDING OFFICES WILL FOLLOW THIS PATH. POPS CEC 730 EKA 620 UKI 000. JBL .EKA...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A youth visiting the beach with a group from Ashland, Oregon was swept of a rock at Preston Island by a large wave. Currents then carried the youth about 100 yards offshore where deputies lost visual contact.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Del Norte | 2001-03-27 | 16 | Male | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in California, March 2001
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: 5236435.