A couple driving into Mt Rainier National Park, near Longmire, had their car hit by a toppled tree. The man was killed and his wife was injured.
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 SEW wrote it up.
A couple driving into Mt Rainier National Park, near Longmire, had their car hit by a toppled tree. The man was killed and his wife was injured.
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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 24, 8:40 AM PST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 840 AM PST SAT NOV 24 2001 .SYNOPSIS...A WEAK WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL MOVE NORTH ALONG THE WESTERN WASHINGTON COAST TODAY BRINGING SOME LIGHT RAIN. THE LOW WILL FILL LEAVING A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE ACROSS OUR AREA. THIS WILL MAINTAIN A CLOUDY...COOL AIR MASS OVER OUR REGION AND A CHANCE SHOWERS THROUGH MONDAY. .DISCUSSION...STRONG AMPY RDG ALG 145W HAS DEEPENED THE COOL NEG TILTED 5H TROF ALG THE PAC NW CST. A MAJOR SHRTWV OF THE N CA CST HAS AN IMPRSV DEFORMATION SHIELD ACRS OR AND INTO SW WA. THE FEATURE IS FCST TO MOV INTO N CA AND NEV TDY. A WKR SHRTWV HAS BEEN RIDING JUST TO THE N AND IS OFF SW WA CST THIS MRNG. IT IS RESPONDING TO THE NEG TILT OF THE UPR TROF AND HAS BEEN MOVG NNW LAST HR OR SO AND IS NOW OUT OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE JET AND WRKG TWD AN SPLT FLOW NR VRISL. THIS SHLD WKN IT AND IT BCMS LOST IN A SFC TROF FM VRISL TO KALW. WA REMAINS SUBJECT TO WK VORT MAXS MOVG SE ALG 5H TROF AXIS. IN THE SHORTER TERM...MOD STG DRY E WNDS OVR THE CASCDS ARE KEEPING PCPN MNLY OVR CST AND SW WA. THE ELY FLOW SHLD WKN THIS AFTN. BY SUN THE SFC TROF HAS MOVD NR B.C. BDR AND WK LOW LVL ONSHR FLOW DVLPS. SUN NGT AND MON A WV DVLPS IN THE ZONAL FLOW ACRS E PAC AND MOVS INTO N CA MON. AVN PCPN WAS WAY OVR DONE LAST FEW RUNS BUT ALL MDLS UNDERESTIMATING THE FLOW ACRS CASCDS AS IT AFFECTS PCPN. PREFER CHC CATEGORY FOR CNTRL PGTSND BUT WILL LV AS LIKELY FOR TDY. .EXTENDED...MDLS SEEM TO BE CONSISTENT MAKING TUE THE DRIER DAY AND BRINGING IN A STG SYS WED. COOL AND SHWRY THURSDAY AFT CDFNT GOES BY ERLY THU. ANOTHER QUICK SHOT OF WARM ADVECTION FOR FRIDAY FOR CONTINUED WET. WHITNEY UIL 855 SEA 644 OLM 754 .SEW...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY COAST AND WEST ENTRANCE. .KATX...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Wind, West Slopes Central Cascades and Passes | 2001-11-24 | 26 | Male | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
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, 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: 5273092.