High Wind, Wallowa County
- When
- March 9, 8:20 PM PST
- Where
- Wallowa County forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.445, -117.595 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Oregon, March 9, 2002
1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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
- 1
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 Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 9, 2:20 PM PST, 6 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 9, 2:20 PM PST, 6 hours before
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 220 PM PST SAT MAR 9 2002 UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THROUGH THE SHORT TERM. SHOWERS FROM A WARM FRONT WILL EFFECT OUR AREA THIS EVENING...RAIN AND SNOW WITH THE ASSOCIATED COLD FRONT PROGGED THROUGH TONIGHT. TROUGH AXIS WITH A COUPLE OF DISTURBANCES IN THE UPPER FLOW WILL CONTINUE THE CHANCE PRECIP ON SUNDAY. A TRANSITORY RIDGE TO BUILD IN SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY. HOWEVER...WITH CONTINUED MOISTURE STREAM AND WEAK WAVES IN THE FLOW...WILL KEEP THINGS UNSETTLED. THE NEXT LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS PROGGED INTO THE REGION MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY. SNOW LEVELS WILL RANGE FROM 2000 NORTH TO 3000 SOUTH AT ITS LOWEST TO 4000-5000 FEET AT ITS HIGHEST. WITH THE VARIOUS SYSTEMS MOVING THROUGH...BREEZY TO LOCALLY WINDY CONDITIONS EXPECTED ACROSS THE BASIN. MJB. EXTENDED...UNSETTLED WEATHER PATTERN CONTINUES THROUGH MOST OF THE EXTENDED. BROAD TROUGH PATTERN HOLDS PLACE OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST...WITH DISTURBANCES MOVING THOUGH IN THE NORTHERLY FLOW. THE MRF SHOWS A STRONG SHORTWAVE MOVING INTO OREGON ON THURSDAY...BUT AM NOT BITING OFF ON THE STRENGTH OF THIS SYSTEM. RIDGE OVER THE PACIFIC BEGINS TO NUDGE INLAND ON FRIDAY. THIS RIDGE WILL BRING COOLER AIR IN LATE IN THE WEEK. NIPPER PDT 6446 ALW 6446 PSC 6446 YKM 3346 .KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP32/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- High Wind in Illinois, March 9, 2002
- High Wind in Ohio, March 9 to 10, 2002
- High Wind in Ohio, March 9, 2002
- Blizzard in Minnesota, March 9, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, March 9, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, March 9, 2002
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in New York, March 9, 2002
- High Wind in Michigan, March 9 to 10, 2002
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Pennsylvania, March 9 to 10, 2002
- High Wind in Michigan, March 9, 2002
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Ohio, March 9, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, March 9, 2002
More
Every storm in Oregon in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, March 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: 5286714.