Name: High Wind in Oregon, December 13, 2001
Start: 2001-12-13T06:00
End: 2001-12-13T10:00
Location: Oregon

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $50,000
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 forecasters said that day

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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 13, 2:30 AM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 13, 2:30 AM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes before

NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
230 AM PST THU DEC 13 2001

A COMPLEX WEATHER SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST THROUGH FRIDAY.  IN RESPONSE TO THE PASSAGE OF THE
ASSOCIATED WARM FRONT...SNOW LEVELS ARE INCREASING...ALREADY PUSHING
TOWARD 4000 FEET OVER THE BLUES.  WITH THE RISE IN SNOW LEVELS...THE
UPDATED SNOW ADVISORY FOR THE BLUES MOUNTAINS WILL BE CONFINED TO
LOCATIONS ABOVE 4000 FEET.  WITH THE CONTINUED INCREASE SNOW LEVELS
AND THE SNOW DECREASING TO SCATTERED SHOWERS THE ADVISORY WILL ONLY
BE CONTINUED THROUGH MID MORNING.  FOR THE MOST PART...THE REST OF
THE AREA HAS ALREADY DIMINISHED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS.  ALSO
ASSOCIATED WITH THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS A COLD FRONT WHICH IS PROGGED
TO MOVE ACROSS THE PENDLETON FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING.  THIS FRONT
WILL BEGIN THE NEXT ROUND OF PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE REGION.  SNOW
LEVELS WILL SLOWLY FALL OVERNIGHT WITH SNOW AMOUNTS EXPECTED TO
REACH NEAR ADVISORY LEVELS OVER THE BLUES.  PRECIP SHOULD DECREASE
TO SCATTERED SHOWERS FOR FRIDAY.  IN ADDITION TO THE PRECIPITATION
...THE CURRENT SYSTEM WILL CREATE VERY STRONG WINDS.  CURRENTLY
WINDS ARE SUSTAINED NEAR 40 MPH AROUND PYLES AND LADD CANYONS AND A
HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED.  THE WINDS WILL INCREASE ACROSS
THE ENTIRE AREA TODAY AND CONTINUE TO BE QUITE STRONG THROUGH FRIDAY.

EXTENDED...THE UPPER TROUGH IS PROGGED TO MOVE INTO IDAHO FRIDAY
NIGHT FOLLOWED BY DRIER NW FLOW ALOFT. THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS WILL
CONTINUE TO SEE SCATTERED SNOW SHOWERS FRIDAY NIGHT WITH CLEARING
SATURDAY MORNING. THE DRYING PERIOD WILL BE SHORT LIVED AS A WARM
FRONT APPROACHES THE REGION LATE SATURDAY. MODELS CONTINUE TO
ADVERTISE A MOIST SYSTEM ON SUNDAY STRENGTHENED BY A 50-60 KNOT LOW
LEVEL JET.  WILL CONTINUE A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW MONDAY THROUGH
WEDNESDAY AS SEVERAL MORE SYSTEMS AFFECT THE REGION.  SMITH

PDT 484  ALW 484  PSC 483  YKM 362

.KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP32/CSR21...OPERATIONAL.

.KPDT...SNOW ADVISORY IN EFFECT THIS MORNING FOR WAZ30 AND ORZ46
        ABOVE 4000 FEET.
     ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT TODAY FOR ORE049

Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Central Oregon

When: December 13, 6:00 AM PST to 10:00 AM PST
Where: Central Oregon forecast zone
Measured: 40 kt (46 mph)
Property damage: $50,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER

A cold front brought damaging winds to central Oregon for several hours. Several large trees were toppled in Bend, leading to blocked streets and one isolated power outage. A construction fence also blew across a city road. In Prineville, part of a tin roof blew off an older house. A peak wind gust of 46 mph was measured at the airport in Redmond.

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 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Oregon, December 2001

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: 5273660.