Strong winds knocked out power to about 20,000 people across western Washington. Most of the power outages were in Kitsap county, although they ranged from Olympia to Bellingham.
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 episode as NWS SEW wrote it up.
Strong winds knocked out power to about 20,000 people across western Washington. Most of the power outages were in Kitsap county, although they ranged from Olympia to Bellingham. On Camano Island, a man was injured when a tree fell on his moblie home.
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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 24, 8:50 PM PST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 850 PM PST SAT DEC 24 2005 .SYNOPSIS...A COLD FRONT WILL BRING RAIN TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING. ANOTHER FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL CROSS THE AREA LATE SUNDAY. SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE MONDAY AS THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH PASSES TO THE EAST. A THIRD FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL BRING RAIN LATE MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. THIS ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE INTO THE WEEKEND. && .SHORT TERM...RADAR SHOW RAIN FROM THE NEXT WEAK COLD FRONT IS INCREASING OVER NW OREGON THIS EVENING. IR SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS A FAIRLY WIDE BREAK BETWEEN THE BACK EDGE OF THE BAND OVER NW OREGON AND THE MAIN CLOUD BAND ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPPER TROUGH/SURFACE LOW ALONG 130W. THUS SHOULD WILL PROBABLY SEE A BIT OF A LULL LATER THIS EVENING BEFORE THE MAIN SYSTEM ARRIVES LATE TONIGHT. PRIMARY EFFECT WILL BE UP TO ANOTHER 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE OLYMPICS WITH S FLOW AT 850 MB IN THE 40-50KT RANGE. SATSOP AND SKOKOMISH ARE ABOVE FLOOD STAGE AND THIS WILL PROLONG IT. LESS QPF EXPECTED OVER THE CASCADES WITH MODELS TARGETING MAINLY THE N CASCADES. WILL HAVE TO WATCH THE CENTRAL CASCADES N OF SNOQUALMIE PASS AS WELL AS THE RIVERS THERE GOT A BETTER SHOT FROM LAST NIGHTS WARM FRONT. 00Z NAM STILL SHOWS A DEFINITE SHORT BREAK BETWEEN THE 130W COLD FRONT AND THE NEXT ONE OUT NEAR 40N/140W. 00Z GFS IS ABOUT 3 HOURS FASTER WITH MORE OF A LULL THAN BREAK. THIS MAY BE WORTH ANOTHER 1 TO 1.5 INCHES OF RAIN OVER THE OLYMPICS. 850 FLOW IS NOT QUITE AS STRONG. HYDRO MIDNIGHT SHIFT WILL UPDATE THE QPS LATER THIS EVENING AFTER THE 00Z MODELS COME IN. EACH SYSTEM SHOULD PRESENT THE NORMAL SE WIND PROBLEMS ALONG THE COAST AND N INTERIOR. GALES ONLY FOR THE COAST AT THIS POINT AND SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REST OF THE INTERIOR. MODELS SHOW MORE WIND FOR THE INTERIOR WITH THE 1ST FRONT. SLIGHTLY LONGER BREAK MONDAY WITH THE NEXT BIG FRONTAL SYSTEM ARRIVING LATE MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY. 18Z GFS SHOWS ANOTHER ROUND OF STRONG S FLOW...BUT MOST WORRISOME IS ABOUT A 24 HOUR PERIOD OF POTENTIALLY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE MOUNTAINS THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. THIS WILL PRESENT ANOTHER ROUND OF RIVER PROBLEMS. KAM .LONG TERM...(PREVIOUS DISCUSSION FROM 245 PM AFD)...WED LOOKING BOTH WET AND WINDY. THU APPEARS NOW TO BE A TRANSITION DAY WITH NEXT SYSTEM LINED UP FOR FRI. YET ANOTHER SYSTEM FOR NEXT WEEKEND. BURKE && .AVIATION...COLD FRONT OFFSHORE WILL MOVE ONTO THE COAST BY EARLY SUN MORNING. GENERALLY MVFR CONDS...BUT INCREASING RAIN WILL GIVE AREAS OF MVFR AFTER MIDNIGHT. KSEA...S/SE WIND 5-9KT TONIGHT. GENERALLY VFR CONDS...WITH TEMPO POSSIBLE MVFR AFTER MIDNIGHT AS RAIN INCREASES. && .SEW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .GALE WARNING COAST AND WEST ENTRANCE UNTIL MIDNIGHT. .SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY COAST AND WEST ENTRANCE MIDNIGHT THROUGH 4 AM. .SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY REMAINING WATERS EXCEPT CENTRAL STRAIT. .FLOOD WARNING FOR THE SKOKOMISH RIVER IN MASON COUNTY. .FLOOD WARNING FOR THE SATSOP RIVER IN GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY. .FLOOD WATCHES FOR CLALLAM...JEFFERSON...MASON...GRAYS HARBOR... WHATCOM...SKAGIT...SNOHOMISH...KING COUNTIES THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. && .KATX...VCP21/CSR21 OPERATIONAL. && WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE
6 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, December 2005
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: 5485289, 5485290, 5485291, 5485292, 5485293, 5485294.