High Wind in Oregon, November 6 to 8, 2002

Name: High Wind in Oregon, November 6 to 8, 2002
Start: 2002-11-06T12:00
End: 2002-11-08T15:00
Location: Oregon

November 6 to 8, 2002 · NWS PQR · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

A Pacific storm brought high winds and coastal flooding to the North and Central Oregon Coasts. Newport Jetty reported gusts to 62 mph, Florence gusts to 61 mph and Garibaldi gusts to 67 mph.

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 happened

The episode as NWS PQR wrote it up.

A Pacific storm brought high winds and coastal flooding to the North and Central Oregon Coasts. Newport Jetty reported gusts to 62 mph, Florence gusts to 61 mph and Garibaldi gusts to 67 mph. The Hatfield Science Center in Newport and Gleneden Beach both reported gusts to 50 mph. Coastal water flooded 5 homes in the Depoe Bay area. Wind whipped waves hit Mo's Restaurant in Cannon Beach. 20 to 30 foot waves swept one family off a rock at Oceanside, swept a woman under a truck at Barview Jetty and deposited a berm of sand 6 foot high blocking the drainage of Hawk Creek. Hawk Creek flooded the road around the Neskowin Golf Course with 18 to 20 inches of water and backed water toward nearby homes in Neskowin, though none were reported to be flooded. Both the family and the woman were rescued, no injuries were reported.

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 Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 6, 9:21 AM PST, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 6, 9:21 AM PST, 2 hours 39 minutes before

NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
830 AM PST WED NOV 6 2002

.SYNOPSIS...A WEAK PAC FRONT HAS MOVED INTO THE FORECAST AREA TODAY.
A SERIES OF STRONG PAC SYSTEMS WILL THEN MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THU
THROUGH SAT...WITH STRONG WINDS LIKELY ALONG THE COAST TONIGHT AND
THU AND POSSIBLY FRIDAY. MOISTURE FROM EX-TYPHOON HUKO WILL ACCOMPANY
THE SYSTEM ON FRI AND A WET AND WINDY PERIOD WILL PERSIST THROUGH THE
REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD.

.DISCUSSION...
.SHORT TERM...WEAK FRONTAL BAND NOW INLAND IS SLOWING DUE TO A
STRONGER SECONDARY BAND THAT WILL CONSOLIDATE THE ENERGY AND BRING
ADDITIONAL RAIN MOVES INTO AREA LATER TODAY. INFRA RED SATELLITE
IMAGERY SHOWS TOPS GETTING COLDER ON THE OFFSHORE FEATURE THIS
MORNING. A STRONG SYSTEM ALREADY NEARING 137W OFF THE CALIF COAST
APPEARS STRONGER THAN MODELS AND FASTER...IT IS BEING DRIVEN EAST BY
180 KT OR BETTER JET...WITH BUOY 006 GUSTING TO 56 KT AT 12Z. THIS
SYSTEM SURGES TO COAST THIS EVENING AND TONIGHT RESULTING IN A HIGH
WIND WARNING FOR CENTRAL OREGON COAST. ADDITIONAL WAVES ROTATING
AROUND SYSTEM WILL CONTINUE GUSTY WINDS THROUGH THU.

MODELS ARE INCONSISTENT WITH NEXT STRONG SURFACE FEATURE
ON FRI AT TIMES PUTTING A STRONG FEATURE OFF THE NORTH OREGON COAST
AND AT TIMES MOVING INLAND SOUTH OF DISTRICT...THE 06Z AVN WAS
STRONGER WITH SURFACE LOW SWINGING ONTO COAST NEAR WA/OR BORDER AND
THE 12Z RUN IS MUCH WEAKER...WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS SYSTEM
AND THE ONE MOVING INLAND SATURDAY CLOSELY AS THE POTENTIAL EXISTS
FOR STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN AS BOTH SYSTEMS APPEAR ASSOCIATED
WITH MOISTURE FROM EX-TYPHOON HUKO.

.LONG TERM...ANOTHER STRONG SYSTEM APPEARS ON TAP FOR SAT ASSOCIATED
WITH PARENT GULF OF AK LOW SHIFTING INTO BC. DETAILS UNCERTAIN AS
ONLY CANADIAN GLOBAL CONTINUES WITH STRONG SURFACE LOW LIFTING UP
WA/OR COASTAL WATERS. WEAKER SYSTEMS INDICATED SUN AND MON BEFORE
POSSIBLY A STRONGER SYSTEM APPROACHES TUE. WILLSON

AST 99+89  PDX 87988  SLE 87989  EUG 87989

.PQR...GALE WARNING CAPE SHOALWATER TO FLORENCE.
       HIGH WIND WARNING CENTRAL COAST TONIGHT AND THU.

Event by event

2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Central Oregon Coast

When: November 6, 12:00 PM PST to November 8, 3:00 PM PST
Where: Central Oregon Coast forecast zone
Measured: 58 kt (67 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

High Wind, Northern Oregon Coast

When: November 6, 12:00 PM PST to November 8, 3:00 PM PST
Where: Northern Oregon Coast forecast zone
Measured: 58 kt (67 mph)
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER

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

Every storm in Oregon in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Oregon, November 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: 5323456, 5323457.