The above observation verified the warning for ORZ021, no verifying reports were recieved for the remaining two zones.
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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 episode as NWS MFR wrote it up.
A High Wind Warning was issued for zones ORZ021/022 and CAZ081 at 0520 PST on 12/13/01 and expired at 0030 PST on 12/14/01.The above observation verified the warning for ORZ021, no verifying reports were recieved for the remaining two zones.
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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 13, 1:30 PM PST, 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST OREGON/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
230 PM PDT THU DEC 13 2001
PREFER THE FASTER MOVEMENT OF THE AVN MODEL WITH THIS INCOMING
SYSTEM. FAST MOVING COLD FRONT WILL MOVE TO THE COAST BETWEEN 4-7PM
AND EAST OF THE CASCADES BY 10PM TONIGHT. SATELLITE LOOP CONTINUES TO
SHOW LARGE ENHANCED AREA OF PRECIP AHEAD AND WITH THE FRONT. SNOW
LEVELS OF 6K WILL DROP QUICKLY TO 3500 TONIGHT. CURRENT WARNINGS AND
ADVISORIES IN EFFECT LOOK GOOD. SOME LOW ELEVATION SNOW LIKELY FRIDAY
MORNING WEST OF THE CASCADES AS SNOW LEVEL DROPS TO AROUND 1500.
SHOWERS WILL DECREASE FRIDAY EVENING BEHIND THE TROUGH PASSAGE. WARM
ADVECTION SPREADS BACK OVER THE REGION SATURDAY AND INTO SUNDAY SO
SOME LIGHT PRECIP LIKELY. PRECIP INCREASING WEST SIDE ZONES LATER
SUNDAY AS THE NEXT FRONT APPROACHES SUNDAY EVENING.
EXTENDED...UNSETTLED WEATHER TO CONTINUE MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY AS A
SERIES OF PACIFIC WEATHER SYSTEMS MOVE ONSHORE. HOLTZ
.MFR...GALE WARNING FLORENCE OR TO PT ST GEORGE CA.
HEAVY SURF ADVISORY TONIGHT & FRIDAY ORZ021/22.
HIGH WIND WARNING TONIGHT HEADLANDS OF ORZ021/022
HIGH WIND WARNING TONIGHT SHASTA VALLEY.
WINTER STORM WARNING TONIGHT ORZ027/028/NRN 30 & CAZ080/082.
SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT ORZ025/29/30/31 &
CAZ081/083/084/085The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Cape Blance recorded south winds 53 gusting to 77 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, December 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: 5274627.