High Surf, North Coast Interior
- When
- June 7, 12:00 PM PST
- Where
- North Coast Interior forecast zone
- Deaths
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Surf in California, June 7, 2004
Between 8 am and 7 pm a boat was sunk after being struck by a series of waves. 5 feet at 11 seconds.
The toll
- Deaths
- 3
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS EKA wrote it up.
Between 8 am and 7 pm a boat was sunk after being struck by a series of waves. The nearest buoy (46027) reported wave heights of 6.9 to 8.5 feet at 11 seconds. One female survivor swam to a near by off shore rock and spent the night.
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 Eureka, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 7, 2:30 AM PST, 9 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 7, 2:30 AM PST, 9 hours 30 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA 330 AM PDT MON JUN 7 2004 .DISCUSSION...LOWER TROP WIND FLOW IS PILING STRATCU INTO THE COASTAL RANGE AND SPILLING INTO N COAST INTERIOR REAL ESTATE THIS MORNING...WITH PATCHY FOG FORMING OVER CLEAR SKY AREAS WELL INLAND. RADAR WAS PICKING UP A WEAK ECHO LINE FROM HUMBOLDT BAY TO OFFSHORE OF KLAMATH MOVG SE. AS UPPER LOW OVER PAC NW COAST DROPS S THINK THIS TREND OF SHOWERS AND PTCHY COASTAL DZ WILL PERSIST FOR A GOOD CHUNK OF THE DAY. MESOETA BNDRY LYR MSTR SHOWS A DRY LINE PUSH W FROM THE UPPER TRINITY RGN SO WILL CONFINE PCPN MAINLY TO NE SECTIONS TDY WITH CLOUD AND MSTR SHADOWING STILL EVIDENT S OF CAPE MENDOCINO. AS UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO DROP S MON NIGHT AND OVHD TUE...PCPN COVERAGE EXPANDS SW OVER THE EKA ZONES. WL TOP POPS 40. ABOUT TUESDAY...CONVECTIVE INDICES ARE FAVORABLE. COLD CORE LOW BRINGS LI VALUES INTO NEGATIVE RANGE. BEST MID LVL LAPSE RATES APPEAR TIMED NICELY WITH PEAK AFTN HEATING AND MAXIMUM BL CAPES. MODEST SPEED SHEAR ALSO EVIDENT THOUGH COLUMN FLOW IN NEARLY ALL N. COASTL SECTIONS APT TO BE STABLIZED IN THE LOWER LEVELS BY ONSHORE FLOW SO WL HOLD ON TO SHRA ONLY AT COAST THIS PCKG. ABOUT THE EXTENDED...DAYS 4-7 SHOW GRADUAL RIDGING AND ESSENTIALLY DRY. HENCE WILL INDICATE SMALL INCREMENTED WARMING DAYS 4-7 WITH LTL CHANCE OF PCPN. && .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFF THE WASHINGTON COAST WILL DROP SOUTH...CROSSING NORTHWEST CALIFORNIA LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY EVENING. THIS WILL GENERATE A COOLER AND WETTER PATTERN ACROSS THE AREA THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. COLD AIR ALOFT WITH THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING THE THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE INTERIOR MOUNTAINS TUESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE REGION BEGINNING WEDNESDAY...BRINGING WARMER AND DRIER WEATHER TO MUCH OF THE AREAS MID WEEK INTO NEXT WEEKEND. && .EKA WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY PT ST GEORGE TO PT ARENA 0-60 NM. && COLBY
Event by event
1 high surf. Local standard time, as filed.
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Surf, North Coast Interior | 2004-06-07 | 62 | Female | Boat | Direct |
| High Surf, North Coast Interior | 2004-06-07 | 64 | Male | Boat | Direct |
| High Surf, North Coast Interior | 2004-06-07 | 37 | Male | Boat | Direct |
What these are
- High Surf
- Large waves breaking on the shore that caused damage, erosion or casualties.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, June 7, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 7, 2004
- Flash Flooding in Mississippi, June 7, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 7, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Minnesota, June 7 to 8, 2004
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, June 7, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, June 7, 2004
- Hail in Texas, June 7, 2004
- High Wind in Montana, June 7, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 7, 2004
- Hail in Michigan, June 7 to 8, 2004
- Hail in South Dakota, June 7 to 8, 2004
More
Every storm in California in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in California, June 2004
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: 5408613.