1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 16, 2:30 AM PST, 2 hours earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 230 AM PST SUN DEC 16 2001 WARM FRONT PASSED THROUGH FORECAST AREA EARLIER WITH VERY LITTLE PRECIPITATION. NOW LOOKING AT SOUTHWEST FLOW PARALLEL TO THE COLD FRONT STRETCHING FROM SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA BACK INTO THE EASTERN PACIFIC. SATELLITE SHOWS A WAVE ALONG THE FRONT AT 40N/140W THAT WILL RIDE UP THE FRONT INTO WESTERN WA TODAY. THIS WAVE WILL HELP SAG THE COLD FRONT SOUTHWARD INTO OREGON LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY. MEANWHILE FORECAST AREA REMAINS UNDER WARM SECTOR WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES IN MOST PLACES. EAST SLOPES OF THE WA CASCADES EXPERIENCING COOL AIR DAMMING WHICH WILL KEEP THEIR TEMPERATURES NEAR NORMAL. COULD ALSO SEE SOME MIXED PRECIP IN THE COOL AIR DAMMING REGION AS FREEZING LEVELS RISE ABOVE CASCADES PASS LEVELS. PRECIP AMOUNTS AND LOCATIONS TODAY ARE BEING DRIVEN BY THE CASCADES RAIN SHADOW EFFECT. EXPECT VERY LITTLE PRECIP IN WESTERN ZONES THEN TRANSITION OVER TO LIKELY POPS IN EASTERN MOUNTAIN ZONES. EVEN AS THE FRONT SAGS SOUTHWARD TONIGHT AND MONDAY STILL DONT SEE MUCH PRECIP IN WESTERN ZONES SO WILL ONLY GO CHANCE POPS THEIR. KEEP LIKELY GOING INTO MONDAY FOR THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS WITH LOWERING SNOW LEVELS MONDAY. DONT SEE ENOUGH ACCUMULATIONS TO WARRANT A WATCH OR ADVISORY AT THIS TIME. PRESSURE GRADIENT REMAINS TIGHT AND PACKED OVER THE NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. WILL ISSUE A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE GRANDE RONDE VALLEY TO COVER THIS. ALSO DROPPING THE BLIZZARD WARNING AND REMAINING SNOW ADVISORY. DAYS 3-7...OTHER THAN SOME LINGERING SNOW OVER THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS ...THE AREA SHOULD BE BETWEEN SYSTEMS MONDAY NIGHT. WITH LITTLE CLOUD COVER...OVERNIGHT TEMPERATURES WILL DROP QUITE LOW. NEXT SYSTEM WILL BEGIN AFFECTING OUR NORTHWESTERN ZONES EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...WITH SCATTERED PRECIP WORKING ITS WAY SOUTH AND EAST DURING THE DAY. THE SYSTEM IS QUICK MOVING...LIFT GENERALLY ABOVE 700 MB AND THE MOISTURE FIELD IS NARROW. OVERALL...NOT LOOKING FOR A WIDESPREAD PRECIP MAKER AND WILL KEEP MOST LOCATIONS WITH CHANCE WORDING. HOWEVER...PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL AGAIN TIGHTEN OVER THE AREA FOR LOCALLY BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITION. THE REST OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD CONTINUES IN AN UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN FOR A CHANCE OF PRECIP EACH DAY. MJB. PDT 454 ALW 454 PSC 343 YKM 343 .KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...HIGH WIND WARNING TODAY AND TONIGHT OREGON Z0NE 49.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sustained winds greater than 40 mph were recorded by an Oregon Dept. of Transportation wind sensor.
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: 5273531.