High Wind, South Central Oregon Coast
- When
- February 18, 5:41 PM PST
- Where
- South Central Oregon Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 42.979, -123.829 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Oregon, February 18, 2002
2 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 Feb 18, 2:30 PM PST, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 2:30 PM PST, 3 hours 11 minutes before
SOUTHWEST OREGON/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
230 PM PST MON FEB 18 2002
FIRST IN A SERIES OF SYSTEMS WILL MOVE ONSHORE TONIGHT AND MAIN
ENERGY MOVING INLAND WELL TO OUR NORTH. RADAR SHOWING LIGHT RAIN JUST
NOW MOVING ONSHORE. PRECIP AMOUNTS NOT EXPECTED TO BE TO SIGNIFICANT
WITH THIS FIRST SYSTEM. ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW WILL MOVE INLAND NORTH
OF VANCOUVER ISLAND LATE TONIGHT. WITH WARM FRONTAL PASSAGE TONIGHT
SNOW LEVELS GOING UP TO AROUND 5K BY TUESDAY MORNING AND REMAINING
NEAR 5K THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NEXT SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE COAST
TUESDAY AND MOVE INLAND TUESDAY EVENING. LARGE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
AVN/ETA WITH DEPTH OF THE SURFACE LOW OFF THE OREGON COAST TUESDAY
AFTERNOON. COMPROMISE MAY BE THE BETTER WAY TO GO. 500MB HEIGHTS
BUILD SOMEWHAT LATER WEDNESDAY INTO THURSDAY BUT WITH MOIST WSW FLOW
MAY BE SOME LIGHT PRECIP AROUND THE REGION ESPECIALLY ACROSS
SOUTHWEST OREGON.
EXTENDED...AVN MODEL SWINGS ANOTHER FRONT ONSHORE FRIDAY. MRF AT ODDS
WITH AVN MODEL SATURDAY. MRF SHOWS FAIRLY STRONG WESTERLY FLOW OVER
THE REGION SATURDAY WHILE THE AVN BRINGS A CLOSED LOW INLAND NEAR THE
CALIF BORDER LATE FRIDAY NIGHT AND NEAR LAKEVIEW 12Z SATURDAY. WILL
SIDE WITH THE FOLKS AT NCEP AND GO WITH THE AVN MODEL RIGHT NOW.
500MB HEIGHTS RISE SOMEWHAT SUNDAY INTO MONDAY BUT WITH FAIRLY STRONG
WESTERLY FLOW MAY SEE SOME LIGHT RAIN WEST OF THE CASCADES IN OREGON.
HOLTZ
.MFR...GALE WARNING FLORENCE TO PT ST GEORGE.
HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE COASTAL HEADLANDS THROUGH THIS
EVENING.The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, South Central Oregon Coast
- When
- February 18, 8:41 PM PST
- Where
- South Central Oregon Coast forecast zone
- Measured
- 68 kt (78 mph)
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 42.979, -123.829 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
Every storm in Oregon in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, February 2002
Sources
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: 5283860, 5283859.