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 14, 8:40 AM PST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 840 AM PST SAT DEC 14 2002 HAVE EXPANDED HIGH WIND WARNING TO INCLUDE ALL SOUTHERN ZONES. THIS IN RESPONSE TO INCREASED LOW LEVEL WINDS AT 850 AND 700MB AS FRONT APPROACHES. MEDFORD SOUNDING SHOWS THE LOW LEVEL WINDS WELL ALONG WITH KPDT VAD WIND PROFILE. EXPECT WINDS OF 30 TO 45 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS TO LAST THROUGH THE DAY THEN DECREASE EARLY TONIGHT AS LOW LEVEL WIND DECREASE. ALREADY RECEIVING NUMEROUS SPOTTER REPORTS OF STRONG WINDS AND SOME MINOR DAMAGE TO ROOFS. NORTHERN ZONES WILL NOT SEE AS MUCH WIND AS GRADIENTS FAVOR MORE OF AN UPSLOPE RAIN EVENT AND A STABLER AIR MASS. NOT HAD MUCH TIME TO LOOK BEYOND TODAY IN THE MODELS SO WILL WAIT UNTIL AFTERNOON ISSUANCE TO DISCUSS NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. SOLOMON PDT 875 ALW 875 PSC 974 YKM 976 .KPDT...HIGH WIND WARNINGS TODAY FOR FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS...BLUE MOUNTAINS...GRANDE RONDE VALLEY...WALLOWA COUNTY...JOHN DAY BASIN...JOHN DAY OCHOCO HIGHLANDS...DESCHUTES COUNTY AND NORTH CENTRAL OREGON.
ORZ041>050-WAZ024>030-151300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 500 AM PST SAT DEC 14 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON AS WELL AS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON .DAY ONE... TODAY A HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE BLUE MOUNTAINS... FOOTHILLS...AND GRAND RONDE VALLEY THIS MORNING. WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 30 TO 40 MPH AS A DISTURBANCE PASSES OVER THE AREA. STRONG LOW LEVEL WINDS WILL MIX DOWN TO THE SURFACE. IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS THE HIGHEST WINDS WILL BE ALONG RIDGE TOPS. IN THE GRANDE RONDE VALLEY THE STRONGEST WINDS WILL BE NEAR LADD AND PYLES CANYONS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A SERIES OF WEATHER SYSTEMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION KEEPING WEATHER UNSETTLED. STRONG WINDS WILL DEVELOP OVER THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY AS ANOTHER STRONG DISTURBANCE MOVES THROUGH. SNOW LEVELS WILL FALL BY EARLY NEXT WEEK...INCREASING THE POTENTIAL FOR SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong wind gusts occurred at two RAWS sites in Oregon. One was at Patjens where a peak wind gust of 62 MPH was measured, and another wind gust of 56 MPH was measured at North Pole ridge.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, December 2002
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: 5325363.