Name: High Wind in Washington, January 1, 2006
Start: 2006-01-01T10:00
End: 2006-01-01T14:00
Location: Washington

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $20,000
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 SEW wrote it up.

About 2500 people lost power in Grays Harbor County.

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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 1, 8:40 AM PST, 1 hour 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 8:40 AM PST, 1 hour 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
840 AM PST SUN JAN 1 2006

.SYNOPSIS...A WEAK LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA
TODAY FOR SHOWERY WEATHER. BRIEF DRYING WILL THEN OCCUR TONIGHT
BEFORE THE NEXT PACIFIC STORM ARRIVES. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING RAIN
AND MOUNTAIN SNOW BACK INTO THE AREA ON TUESDAY. LOOK FOR WET
WEATHER TO PERSIST THE REST OF THIS WEEK AS A SERIES OF STORM
SYSTEMS MOVE ACROSS THE REGION.

&&

.SHORT TERM...
PRECIPITATION CONTINUED OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING...BUT IS EXPECTED
TO DECREASE OR END OVER THE COAST AND SW INTERIOR LATER THIS
AFTERNOON. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWED A WELL-DEFINED BACK EDGE OR
CLEARING BEHIND THE CLOUD/PRECIPITATION FIELD PRESENTLY OVER THE
AREA. EXPECT THIS TO TRANSLATE EWD EARLY TONIGHT WITH PRECIP COMING
TO AN END AT MOST LOCALES AS THE UPPER TROF MOVES INTO THE NRN GREAT
BASIN.

THE NEXT IN THE SEEMINGLY NEVER-ENDING SERIES OF PAC STORM SYSTEMS
WILL BEGIN AFFECTING THE REGION TUE MORNING...WITH RAIN AND MOUNTAIN
SNOW OVERSPREADING THE AREA DURING THE DAY.

.LONG TERM...FROM THE PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...STRONG WESTERLY FLOW
WILL DRIVE A SERIES OF WEATHER SYSTEMS ACROSS WRN WA THROUGH NEXT
WEEKEND.  A PARTICULARLY STRONG FRONT MAY HANG UP OVER THE AREA WED
NIGHT THROUGH FRI...POSSIBLY CAUSING SOME FLOOD CONCERNS.  MERCER

&&

.AVIATION...CEILINGS GENERALLY 3500 TO 5000 FEET TODAY WITH NUMEROUS
SHOWERS. AREAS OF CEILINGS 2000 TO 3000 FEET WITH LOCAL CEILINGS 700
TO 1500 FEET IN HEAVIER SHOWERS...MAINLY THIS MORNING. SOUTH WIND
AROUND 6 KNOTS AT KSEA. GS

&&

.SEW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY COASTAL
WATERS FOR HAZARDOUS SEAS. COASTAL FLOOD ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR THE
PUGET SOUND UNTIL 17Z.

&&

.KATX...VCP21/CSR21 OPERATIONAL.

&&

WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE

Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, W Grays Harbor

When: January 1, 10:00 AM PST to 2:00 PM PST
Where: W Grays Harbor forecast zone
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph) measured gust
Property damage: $20,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER

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

More

Every storm in Washington in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Washington, January 2006

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: 5486706.