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 Jan 12, 8:15 AM PST, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 815 AM PST SAT JAN 12 2002 NARROW BAND OF PRECIPITATION WITH THE FRONT CURRENTLY OVER EASTERN OREGON/WASHINGTON. THE FRONT WILL CONTINUE TO TRACK QUICKLY EAST OUT OF FORECAST AREA TODAY. WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE WINDY CONDITIONS OVER MOST OF AREA...BUT GRADIENT RELAXS OVER THE GRANDE RONDE VALLEY AND WILL LET HIGH WIND WARNING EXPIRE. BEHIND THE FRONT...WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE PRECIPITATION OVER THE CASCADES WITH SOME INTO WASHINGTON ZONE 25. THIS FLOW WILL ALSO ENHANCE PRECIPITATION OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE DAY AND INTO THE EVENING. LOHMANN IN THE EXTENDED...STILL SOME DIFFERENCES IN THE DATA...BUT A WAVE LOOKS TO BE ON TRACK TO MOVE ACROSS SOUTHWEST OREGON AND NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LATE SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. TIMING HAS SLOWED SOME AND WITH A SLIGHTLY MORE SOUTHERLY TRACK WILL INDICATE HIGHEST POPS OVER OREGON ON MONDAY. NORTHWEST FLOW WITH IMBEDDED DISTURBANCES STILL INDICATED FOR TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. TIMING OF THE DISTURBANCES IS UNCERTAIN SO WILL KEEP THE CURRENT FORECAST WITH A CHANCE OF PRECIP EACH DAY. GKH PDT 310 ALW 310 PSC 200 YKM 100 .KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...NONE.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High winds with a peak gust of 60 mph reported at the Pendleton Airport and a peak gust of 70 mph reported at the Pendleton National Weather Service Office.
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, January 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: 5277480.