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 Dec 16, 2:30 PM PST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 230 PM PST SUN DEC 16 2001 WILL CONTINUE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR GRANDE RONDE VALLEY TONIGHT. ODOT SHOWS GUSTS OVER 50 MPH SEVERAL TIMES TODAY. GRADIENT HAS TIGHTENED A LITTLE THIS AFTERNOON IN RESPONSE TO FALLING PRESSURES IN BASIN AHEAD OF COLD FRONT. UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND COLD FRONT TO SWING THROUGH AREA LATE TONIGHT AND MONDAY WITH RAIN...LOWERING SNOW LEVELS AND SHIFTING WINDS. SNOW AMOUNTS BELOW ADVISORY CRITERIA ARE EXPECTED. COLD FRONT WILL RAISE HAVOC WITH DIURNAL TEMPERATURE PATTERN AGAIN...SO OVERNIGHT LOWS AND MONDAY HIGHS MAY BE CLOSE...ESPECIALLY BASIN AND EAST. DRIER AIR COVERS THE REGION MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT WITH NEXT WARM AIR ADVECTION PRECIPITATION EPISODE FOR TUESDAY. COLD AIR FROM MONDAY NIGHT WILL BE SLOW TO SCOUR OUT AND SNOW LEVELS WILL BE INITIALLY LOW IN THE WEST ON TUESDAY. HULL DAY 3-7...PATTERN REMAINS PROGRESSIVE THROUGH THE EXTENDED PERIOD. ZONAL FLOW ACROSS THE PAC NW WITH A DECENT WAVE MOVING THROUGH THE FLOW WEDNESDAY. MODELS VARYING GREATLY WITH SOLUTIONS AFTER THAT. MRFAND TO LESSER EXTENT THE ECMWF TRY TO BUCKLE THE ZONAL FLOW LATER IN THE EXTENDED...WOULD LIKE TO BITE OFF ON A DRIER FORECAST LATE FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. HOWEVER THE MODELS HAVE BEEN TRYING TO BUILD A STRONG REGION OVER THE WEST FOR THE PAST FEW WEEKS...SO FAR IT HAS NOT HAPPENED. AS SUCH NO I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN A SOLUTION WITH A RIDGE SO WILL HOLD ONTO CHANCE WORDING THROUGH THE END OF THE PERIOD. TOBIN PDT 7313 ALW 7313 PSC 6114 YKM 7114 .KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...HIGH WIND WARNING TONIGHT OREGON Z0NE 49.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Windy conditions led to several power outages in Klickitat County. Around 600 customers in the towns of Bickleton, Roosevelt, and Goodnoe lost power for 2 to 3 hours.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, 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: 5273528.