1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Mar 5, 9:40 AM PST, 49 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 940 AM PST WED MAR 5 2003 LATEST SFC OBS FROM AROUND THE AREA HAS SFC WINDS CLIMBING ACROSS SOME LOCATIONS INTO THE 30MPH SUSTAINED VALUES WITH PEAK GUSTS OVER 50MPH NEAR HRI. ALTHOUGH THE LATEST MAV FORECAST IS SLIGHTLY LOWER IN WINDS THIS AFTN...7HMBS WINDS RISE TO 50-60KTS. THIS SHUD MIX DOWN AND THEREFORE WILL LET THE HIGH WIND WARNING PERSIST. LATEST RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS INCREASING IN COVERAGE AND INTENSITY OVER THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE CASCADES. WOULD EXPECT WITH AN INTENSE WESTERLY UPSLOPE FLOW THAT THE TREND FOR INCREASING PCPN INTENSITY AND COVERAGE WILL PERSIST AND SPREAD RAPIDLY INTO THE BLUE MTNS THIS AFTN AND CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING. THEREFORE...OTHER THAN MAKING MULTIPLE CORRECTIONS TO THE WINTER AND HIGH WIND HIGHLIGHTS ACROSS MOST ZONES FOR THE EXPIRATION TIME INTO THE SECOND AND THIRD PERIODS...LITTLE CHANGES TO THE PRESENT FORECAST IS ANTICIPATED. PDT 346 ALW 345 PSC 122 YKM 222 .KPDT...A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR THE EAST SLOPES OF THE WASHINGTON CASCADES AND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON THROUGH THURSDAY... ...A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE...THE YAKIMA AND KITTITAS VALLEYS...THE COLUMBIA BASIN OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON...AND THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON TODAY... ...A SNOW ADVISORY FOR WALLOWA COUNTY TODAY... ...A HIGH WIND WATCH FOR THURSDAY FOR THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE...THE YAKIMA AND KITTITAS VALLEYS...THE COLUMBIA BASIN OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON...AND THE FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON AND WASHINGTON...
ORZ041>050-WAZ024>030-061300- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 500 AM PST WED MAR 5 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON AS WELL AS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON .DAY ONE...TODAY A STRONG WINTER WEATHER SYSTEM WILL MOVE INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST TODAY BRINGING MOUNTAIN SNOW AND HIGH WINDS. SEVERAL HIGH WIND WARNINGS AND WINTER STORM WARNINGS HAVE BEEN ISSUED. A SNOW ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR WALLOWA COUNTY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY ANOTHER STRONG WAVE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION ON THURSDAY BRINGING MORE HIGH WINDS AND MOUNTAIN SNOW. A HIGH WIND WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THIS EVENT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Power lines went down three miles east of Cowiche, knocking out power to 200 customers, including two upper valley schools. High winds also uprooted a tree in Grandview.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, March 2003
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: 5347901.