1 flood, 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 Dec 31, 10:00 AM PST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED AVIATION DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 1000 AM PST SAT DEC 31 2005 .SHORT TERM...WATER VAPOR LOOP SHOWS A COMMA HEAD CLOUD SYSTEM MOVING NORTH ALONG THE COAST OF OREGON WITH A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM ON THE COAST JUST SOUTH OF BROOKINGS OREGON. WEB CAMERAS... SURFACE OBSERVATIONS FROM REDMOND AND SPOTTER REPORTS INDICATE PRECIPITATION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM IS MOVING INTO CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL OREGON THIS MORNING. EXPECT PRECIPITATION TO OCCUR AS RAIN TODAY SINCE SNOW LEVEL WILL BE RISING TO AROUND 6000 FT MSL BY THIS AFTERNOON. PRECIPITATION WILL SPREAD ACROSS REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS AFTERNOON IN RESPONSE TO FORCING AND DYNAMIC LIFT AHEAD OF AN UPPER LEVEL SHORT WAVE THAT WILL SWING THROUGH SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON AND NORTHEAST OREGON THIS AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. ANOTHER...MUCH STRONGER...UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE COAST SUNDAY MORNING AND THEN MOVE NORTH ALONG THE COAST SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A COLD FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW WILL PUSH EAST OF THE CASCADES AND ACROSS OUR FORECAST AREA SUNDAY AFTERNOON. THE FRONT WILL BRING A GOOD CHANCE OF VALLEY RAIN AND A HIGH LIKELIHOOD OF MOUNTAIN SNOW SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH SNOW LEVEL LOWERING TO AROUND 3500-4000 FEET BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. PATCHY FOG IS OCCURRING IN THE LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN THIS MORNING ALTHOUGH IT SHOULD BECOME THINNER AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. GIVEN THE RECENT HEAVY RAINFALL...HIGH SNOW LEVELS IN THE OREGON CASCADES AND ASSOCIATED RECENT SNOW MELT AND RUNOFF...WE WILL MONITOR RIVER GAGES IN CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL OREGON TODAY FOR POSSIBLE UPWARD SPIKES IN RIVER LEVELS. POLAN && AVIATION...LOW CLOUDS AND FOG FORMED IN THE COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE AND BASIN THIS MORNING AS WELL AS IN THE YAKIMA VALLEY. AS A RESULT...LIFR AND IFR WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE BETTER PART OF THE DAY. AT KPDT...KALW...AND KRDM...VFR AND MVFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THE DAY. ANOTHER SYSTEM IS BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO THE REGION TODAY...WITH REDMOND ALREADY SEEING SOME RAIN. THIS RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO SPREAD NORTH AND EAST THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. PALMER && .PREVIOUS HYDROLOGY DISCUSSION (ISSUED 245 AM PST SAT DEC 31 2005)...SEVERAL CONCERNS THIS MORNING. THE FIRST IS THE URBAN AND SMALL STREAM WARNING FOR CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL OREGON THRU 430 AM. RECENT REPORTS INDICATE PRECIPITATION HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND URBAN FLOODING AS RECEDED ACROSS THE WARNING AREA...THUS WILL CANCEL THE WARNING WITH THE ZONE FORECAST ISSUANCE. ANOTHER CONCERN IS THE LEVELS ON SOME OF THE RIVERS. THE DESCHUTES RIVER AT MOODY IS CURRENTLY AROUND 6.5 FEET...ABOUT 1.5 FEET BELOW FLOOD STAGE. WITH RAINFALL SLACKENING A BIT...LIGHTER TOTALS FORECAST FOR TODAY...AND THE RISE ON THE RIVER DECREASING...THE RIVER WILL LIKELY CREST UNDER 7 FEET...THUS WILL NOT ISSUE A STATEMENT AT THIS TIME. THE KLICKITAT RIVER NEAR PITT IS ALSO AT A FAIRLY HIGH LEVEL...8.5 FEET...0.5 FEET BELOW FLOOD STAGE. THE RIVER IS NEAR ITS CREST CURRENTLY...WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR ANY SIGNIFICANT AND/OR SNOWMELT TO GENERATE ADDITIONAL RISES. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... PDT 48 36 50 35 / 60 60 40 40 ALW 52 38 49 35 / 60 60 40 50 PSC 47 36 49 33 / 40 40 40 40 YKM 41 31 39 30 / 50 40 50 40 HRI 48 34 49 32 / 40 40 40 40 ELN 39 29 37 26 / 50 40 50 40 RDM 46 28 43 29 / 80 60 50 50 LGD 45 32 41 31 / 70 60 40 40 5J0 45 29 43 29 / 70 60 40 40 DLS 48 37 43 32 / 60 60 60 50 && .PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...NONE. WA...NONE. && TI:GGG FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT... WWW.WEATHER.GOV/PENDLETON 99/82
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 500 AM PST SAT DEC 31 2005 WAZ024-501-502-026>030-ORZ041>044-049-050-501>506-011215- EAST SLOPES OF THE CENTRAL CASCADES- EAST SLOPES OF THE SOUTHERN CASCADES-KITTITAS VALLEY- YAKIMA VALLEY-LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN OF WASHINGTON- FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF WASHINGTON- NORTHWEST BLUE MOUNTAINS-EASTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE OF OREGON- NORTH CENTRAL OREGON-CENTRAL OREGON- LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN OF OREGON-GRANDE RONDE VALLEY-WALLOWA COUNTY- FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON- NORTHERN BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON- SOUTHERN BLUE MOUNTAINS OF OREGON- NORTHERN WHEELER AND SOUTHERN GILLIAM COUNTIES-JOHN DAY BASIN- OCHOCO-JOHN DAY HIGHLANDS- 500 AM PST SAT DEC 31 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON AS WELL AS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE AREA...WITH WIDESPREAD RAIN ACROSS MOST AREAS...HOWEVER RAINFALL TOTALS WILL BE LESS THAN FRIDAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. UNSETTLED WEATHER WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK...AS A SERIES OF MOIST PACIFIC STORM SYSTEMS CROSS THE REGION. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. GRAPHICAL FORECASTS OF WEATHER HAZARDS OUT TO SEVEN DAYS ARE DISPLAYED ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT: WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/PENDLETON/CURRENTHAZARDS/HWO.HTML ALL LETTERS IN THE ABOVE URL ARE LOWER CASE...EXCEPT THE H IN CURRENTHAZARDS.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
In Culver, minor flooding from nearby fields affected roadways, the Post Office, and some residences.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, December 2005
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