1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Mar 13, 2:45 PM PST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
245 PM PST TUE MAR 13 2001
A FAST MOVING COLD FRONT IS ALMOST ONSHORE IN NORTHWESTERN
WASHINGTON AT THIS TIME...AND IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SOUTHEAST ACROSS
THE PACNW THIS MORNING. EXPECT FRONTAL PASSAGE IN THE PENDLETON AREA
AROUND 10 AM. THE SYSTEM WILL DROP MOST OF ITS PRECIPITATION OVER
THE CASCADES. THUS WILL KEEP SLIGHT CHANCE POPS FOR RAIN TODAY FROM
THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE SOUTHERN WASHINGTON CASCADES THROUGH THE
COLUMBIA BASIN TO THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS...WITH CHANCE
POPS OVER THE BLUES TODAY DECREASING TO SLIGHT CHANCE TONIGHT. THE
MAIN CONCERN TODAY WILL BE WINDS. WITH A 110 KNOT JET STREAM MOVING
DIRECTLY OVER OUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...EXPECT UPPER
LEVEL WINDS TO MIX DOWNWARD...REACHING WARNING CRITERIA THROUGH MUCH
OF OUR AREA. WILL THEREFORE UPGRADE THE EXISTING HIGH WIND WATCH...
WHICH EXPIRES AT 4AM TODAY..TO A HIGH WIND WARNING EXPIRING AROUND
8PM TONIGHT. EXPECT WINDS OF 35 TO 45 MPH WITH GUSTS GREATER THAN 60
MPH. WILL ALSO INCLUDE A BLOWING DUST ADVISORY BASED ON DRY SOIL
CONDITIONS...ESPECIALLY WHERE HIGHWAYS ARE NEAR RECENTLY PLOWED
FIELDS. THE HIGH WINDS SHOULD DECREASE BELOW WARNING CRITERIA
OVERNIGHT. BY WEDNESDAY A COOLER AIRMASS WHICH FOLLOWS THE DEPARTING
SYSTEM WILL BRING MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES AND COOLER TEMPERATURES. WINDS
WILL BE IN THE 10 TO 15 MPH RANGE AS THE PRESSURE GRADIENT WEAKENS.
FARMER
EXTENDED...NEXT WAVE TO BECOME NEGATIVELY TILTED AND NOSE INTO
OREGON THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. THUS HAVE ADD MENTION OF A CHANCE OF
PRECIP TO MOST ZONES FOR SOME PART OF THURSDAY. PATTERN EXPECTED TO
RETURN TO THAT OF A FLAT RIDGE FOR CONTINUED UNSETTLED CONDITIONS
THROUGH MONDAY. NO OTHER CHANGES TO CURRENT FORECASTS BEYOND
THURSDAY. GKH
PDT 210 ALW 210 PSC 200 YKM 200
.KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP32/CSR21...OPERATIONAL.
.KPDT...HIGH WIND WARNING AND BLOWING DUST ADVISORY TUESDAY FOR THE
KITTITAS AND YAKIMA VALLEYS...THE LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN...THE
BLUE MOUNTAIN FOOTHILLS...NORTH CENTRAL OREGON AND CENTRAL
OREGON...PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OREGON
215 PM PST TUE MAR 13 2001
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0100 PM 10 N RICHLAND WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 BENTON SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40
MPH. REPORTED BY
HANFORD MESONET.
0100 PM 14 SW HANFORD WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 BENTON SUSTAINED WINDS OF 43
MPH. REPORTED BY
HANFORD MESONET.
0100 PM 6 NW HANFORD WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 BENTON SUSTAINED WINDS OF 44
MPH. REPORTED BY
HANFORD MESONET.
0115 PM 10 SW HANFORD WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 BENTON SUSTAINED WINDS OF 42
MPH. REPORTED BY
HANFORD MESONET.
0115 PM 16 SW HANFORD WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 BENTON SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40
MPH. REPORTED BY
HANFORD MESONET.
0115 PM 14 SW HANFORD WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 BENTON SUSTAINED WINDS OF 46
MPH. REPORTED BY
HANFORD MESONET.
0115 PM 8 N RICHLAND WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 BENTON SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40
MPH. REPORTED BY
HANFORD MESONET.
0130 PM 10 SW HANFORD WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 BENTON SUSTAINED WINDS OF 46
MPH WITH GUSTS TO 61
MPH. REPORTED BY
HANFORD MESONET.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OREGON
332 PM PST TUE MAR 13 2001
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0230 PM KENNEWICK WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 BENTON POWER LINES REPORTED
DOWN ACROSS BENTON
COUNTY. . REPORTED BY
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OREGON
353 PM PST TUE MAR 13 2001
TIME(PST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0300 PM BOARDMAN OR NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 MORROW 60 MPH WIND GUSTS. ONE
QUARTER MILE VISIBILITY
ALONG INTERSTATE 84
FROM BLOWING DUST.
REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER.
0300 PM 10 W HANFORD WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 BENTON SUSTAINED WINDS AT 84
MPH WITH GUSTS AT 95 AT
ELEVATION OF 3600 FEET
ON RATTLESNAKE RIDGE.
REPORTED BY HANFORD
MESONET.
0315 PM ROOSEVELT WA NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 KLICKITAT SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40
MPH WITH GUSTS TO 65
MPH. REPORTED ON THE
HANFORD MESONET.
0330 PM 8 SW BOARDMAN OR NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 MORROW SUSTAINED WINDS OF 42
MPH WITH GUSTS TO 55
MPH. REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER MORROW 11.
0345 PM BOARDMAN OR NON TSTM WINDS
03/13/01 MORROW SUSTAINED WINDS OF 35
MPH WITH GUSTS TO 60
MPH. REPORTED BY STORM
SPOTTER MORROW 9.1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
At the Pendleton Airport, the ASOS recorded sustained winds of 41 mph with gust as high as 48 mph during the late afternoon.
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, 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: 5236269.