1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Boise, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 16, 2:33 AM PST, 3 hours 42 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST IDAHO/SOUTHEAST OREGON AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO 330 AM MST SUN DEC 15 2002 WINDS ALREADY CLOSE TO ADVISORY CRITERIA EXPECTED TO BE THERE IN A FEW HOURS AS PRESSURE GRADIENTS INCREASE AHEAD OF SURFACE COLD FRONT. MODELS SHOW GRADIENTS STARTING TO RELAX AFTER 18Z TODAY. MODELS ALSO SHOW LESS GRADIENT IN MAGIC VALLEY SO HAVE KEPT THEM OUT OF ADVISORY FOR TIME BEING. SURFACE COLD FRONT EXPECTED TO CROSS OUR OREGON ZONES THIS AFTERNOON REACHING BOISE AROUND 00Z. FOLLOWING FRONT TONIGHT AND TUESDAY SNOW LEVELS STILL ABOVE LOWEST VALLEYS BUT MAX TEMPS ABOUT 10F COLDER TUESDAY. MODEL POPS QUITE LOW TUESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY BUT HAVE MADE SOME CONCESSIONS TO OFFICES TO OUR NORTH AND WEST BY NUDGING POPS UP FOR THOSE PERIODS IN OUR ZONES ADJACENT TO THEIRS. SHORTWAVE RIDGING THURSDAY FOR DRY AND SLIGHTLY WARMER THOUGH STILL MOSTLY CLOUDY FOLLOWED BY COOLING AND CHANCE SHOWERS VALLEY RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY UNDER COLD UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AND COMING UNDER NORTHERLY FLOW SUNDAY. /JT .BOI...WIND ADVISORY THIS MORNING THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON FOR OREGON ZONES AND IDAHO TREASURE VALLEY.
IDZ011>016-028>030-ORZ061>064-150600- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE IDAHO 0700 AM MST SUN DEC 15 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST IDAHO AND SOUTHEAST OREGON. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
cold front moving through..wide spread power outages.
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: 5324141.