A High Wind Warning was issued for the coastal headlands of zones ORZ021/022 at 1845 PST on 01/28 and cancelled at 0455 PST on 01/29. The warning verified soon after issuance at Cape Blanco.
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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 the coastal headlands of zones ORZ021/022 at 1845 PST on 01/28 and cancelled at 0455 PST on 01/29. The warning verified soon after issuance at Cape Blanco.
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 Jan 29, 2:30 PM PST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST OREGON/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR 230 PM PST MON JAN 29 2001 WEAK RIDGING TO BUILD IN FROM THE SW TONIGHT. CONTINUED MOIST ONSHORE AND UNSTABLE LOW LEVELS SHOULD MAINTAIN SOME STRATOCU OVER THE WEST OVERNIGHT...THOUGH CLEARING ANTICIPATED EAST SIDE AND CA AFTER SUNDOWN. HEIGHTS BUILD TUES NGT INTO WEDS WITH CONTINUING SUBSIDENCE AND DRY WX BUT DEVELOPING VALLEY FOG. MORE OF THE SAME WEDS/WEDS NGT. NEXT FRONT EXPECTED THURS NGT/FRI HAS BEEN A BIT OF A TALL TALE LATELY BY THE MRF...WHICH STARTED A FEW DAYS AGO SPREADING LOTS OF PRECIP INLAND BY WEDS. THE MRF ENSEMBELS AND OTHERS POINTED TO A MORE ACCEPTED SLOWER SOLUTION OF DEVELOPING FAST ONSHORE FLOW AND A FRONT SAGGING INTO THE REGION LATE THURS INTO FRI. LATEST AVN IS GENERALLY ACCEPTED THROUGH THURS AND HAS THE FRONT REACHING THE COAST LATE THURS AFTN AND SAGGING E-W INTO SW OREGON THURS NGT. THEREAFTER...A FAST AND ZONAL ONSHORE FLOW IS ADVERTISED INTO THE WEEKEND WITH THE UPPER JET CORE REMAINING NORTH OF THE AREA. THE MODELS ADVERTISE PRECIP INTO CA AND OVER THE EAST...BUT IN A WESTERLY FLOW WITHOUT ANY REAL COLD AIR DIVING SOUTH...ANY PRECIP OF SIGNIFICANCE THERE SEEMS UNLIKELY AND WILL OPT FOR A MOSTLY DRY E-SIDE AND NE CA THOUGH THE EXTENDED. THE PRECIP ADVERTISED IN NW CA FRI-SAT IS QUESTIONABLE. SO FOR THE WEST...CHANCES WILL REMAIN LATE THURS-SAT IN WESTERN OREGON AND ONLY FRI-SAT IN NW CA. DRY SUNDAY. CHANCES AGAIN BEGINNING MON BUT IT SEEMS LIKE ANYBODYS BALLGAME NEXT WEEK. WILL SHOOT WITH THE MORE PROGRESSIVE OUTLOOK HINTED BY THE ECMWF...EXPECTING A MORE ACTIVE ONSHORE PATTERN TO CONTINUE DOMINATING INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. STAVISH .MFR...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FLORENCE TO PT. ST. GEORGE. OTH BU 037/050 034/054 037 093000 4BK BU 042/056 042/057 036 093000 RBG BB 036/047 033/049 033 093000 MFR BB 029/046 026/047 024 090000 LMT BU 017/033 012/036 012 090000 LKV BU 017/032 005/030 005 090000 MHS BU 021/040 016/043 016 090000
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Cape Blanco winds 40 mph gusting to 59 mph.
Cape Blanco winds 42 mph gusting to 50 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, January 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: 5227755, 5228598.