A High Wind Warning was issued for the coastal headland of the south Oregon coast effective at the times listed above. Cape Blanco verified the warning with nearly every hourly observation between 1900 PST on 11/12/01 and 0500 PST on 11/14/01.
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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 headland of the south Oregon coast effective at the times listed above. Cape Blanco verified the warning with nearly every hourly observation between 1900 PST on 11/12/01 and 0500 PST on 11/14/01. Another round of verifying observations were recorded between 2300 PST on 11/14 and 0400 PST on 11/15. Peak sustained wind: 48 mph. Peak gust: 72 mph. Cape Arago verified the warning continuously from 1600 PST on 11/14 to 0100 PST on 11/15. Peak sustained wind: 46 mph. Peak gust: 65 mph.Damage was also reported at Gold Beach by spotter CU-12. A roof on the shed attached to his house blew off at around 1500 PST on 11/13. This was the only verifying report recorded in zone ORZ022.
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 Nov 12, 8:30 PM PST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST OREGON/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
830 PM PDT MON NOV 12 2001
UPDATE CONCERNS THIS EVENING ARE CURRENT SHOWER TRENDS...AND THEN
INCREASING RAIN AND WIND ON TUESDAY.
00Z MODELS INTIALIZED AN H5 TROF AXIS OVER THE W FORECAST AREA. IN
ADDITION, IR AND WV IMAGERY REVEALED A WELL DEFINED CIRCULATION
MOVING ONTO THE COAST AT 03Z. POINT ST. GEORGE BUOY WINDS INCREASED
TO NEARLY 30KT WITH GALE FORCE GUSTS BETWEEN 00Z & 02Z...SUGGESTING A
SMALL SCALE SFC REFLECTION. KMAX WSR-88D REFLECTIVITIES DEPICTED
SHOWER BANDS AHEAD OF THE CIRCULATION OVER CURRY AND JOSEPHINE
COUNTIES...WITH BROOKINGS PICKING UP 0.25 INCH OF RAIN 00Z-03Z. ISOLD
TO SCT SHOWERS SHOULD GRADUALLY TAPER OFF OVERNIGHT IN SUBSIDENCE
BEHIND THE TROF AXIS.
TOMORROWS SYSTEM CONTINUES TO TAKE SHAPE FOR THE PACIFIC NW & SW
OREGON. 125KT UPPER JET TAKES AIM AT PORTLAND TOMORROW PUSHING A WARM
FRONT TOWARD THE OREGON COAST. INCOMING 00Z MODELS ARE CONSISTENT IN
TIGHTENING THE PRES GRADIENT AS LOW PRES DEEPENS OFF THE WA COAST AND
HI PRES BUILDS INTO CALIFORNIA. AVN AND ETA INCREASE BLRY WINDS TO
35-40KT AT THE COAST BY 18Z TUE MORNING...WITH THE MESOETA DEPICTED
50KT MAX. CONFIDENCE IS HIGH ENOUGH TO UPGRADE THE HIGH WIND WATCH TO
A WARNING FOR THE COASTAL HEADLANDS. INLAND, IT WILL ALSO BECOMING
WINDY OVER HIGHER TERRAIN FROM THE CASCADES WEST AS THE 850MB FLOW
INCREASES TO 30-40KT.
AGREEMENT IN MODEL QFP ALSO SUPPORTS HIGHER POPS. STRENGTHENING
ISENTROPIC ASCENT AHEAD OF THE WARM FRONT EVEN WARRANTS CHANCE POPS
TUESDAY AFTERNOON EAST OF THE CASCADES. WITH SUSTAINED AND STRONG SW
FLOW THRU TUE NIGHT...THE COAST AND MOUNTAINS IMMEDIATELY INLAND IN
CURRY AND COOS COUNTIES WILL RECEIVE THE HIGHEST RAINFALL TOTALS IN
OUR FORECAST AREA...PROBABLY IN THE 1 TO 2 INCH RANGE. EVEN HIGHER
TOTALS ARE LIKELY TO THE NORTH UNDER THE NOSE OF THE JET.
WOLF
.MFR...GALE WARNING FLORENCE OREGON TO PT ST GEORGE CALIFORNIA.
HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE COASTAL HEADLANDS ORZ021-022 TUESDAY
AND TUESDAY NIGHT.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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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, November 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: 5273307, 5273308.