1 strong wind, 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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 7, 9:00 AM PST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
900 AM PST SAT JAN 7 2006
.SYNOPSIS...A WEAK COLD FRONT WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF RAIN TO
WESTERN WASHINGTON THIS AFTERNOON FOLLOWED BY SHOWERS TONIGHT. A
WEAK UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL PRODUCE A RELATIVELY DRY PERIOD
SUNDAY...WITH ONLY A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. A STRONGER COLD FRONT REACH
THE AREA SUNDAY NIGHT AND EARLY MONDAY. ADDITIONAL FRONTAL SYSTEMS
WILL FOLLOW TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
&&
.SHORT TERM...LATEST IR SATELLITE IMAGE INDICATES A WELL DEFINED
NEGATIVE TILT FRONTAL BAND W/ COLD CLOUDS TOPS APPROACHING THE COAST
THIS MORNING. UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENCE AND COLD AIR POCKET APPEAR TO
SUPPORT RATHER STRONG VERTICAL MOTION AS THE SYSTEM MOVES IN TODAY.
SOME LIGHT PRECIP BANDS HAVE ALREADY DEVELOPED OUT AHEAD OF THE MAIN
FRONT THIS MORNING BUT AMOUNTS SHOULD REMAIN LIGHT UNTIL THE MAIN
FRONTAL BAND MOVES ONTO THE COAST LATE THIS MORNING...THEN SPREADS
INLAND THIS AFTERNOON. QPF ON THE ORDER OF A HALF TO ONE INCH
CERTAINLY POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY COAST AND MOUNTAINS...ALTHOUGH NOT
LIKELY ENOUGH TO INCREASE RIVER FLOODING. HOWEVER...THE SKOKOMISH
RIVER STILL REMAINS ABOVE FLOOD STAGE THIS MORNING FROM PREVIOUS
RAINFALL. THE ADDITIONAL RAIN TODAY MAY CAUSE A SLOWER RECESSION
IN LEVELS BUT NO SPIKE UPWARD EXPECTED. REFER TO LOCAL FLOOD
STATEMENTS FOR DETAILS.
SNOW LEVELS ARE RANGING BETWEEN 4-5K FEET THIS MORNING WITH EITHER
RAIN OR SNOW DEPENDING ON THE PASS. SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW DID FALL
OVERNIGHT AT THE HIGHER PASSES BUT THIS HAS SINCE LET UP THIS
MORNING. THE FRONT MOVING IN TODAY WILL BRING COLDER AIR ALOFT SO
SNOW LEVELS SHOULD DROP TO MOST PASSES BY LATE IN THE DAY AND
OVERNIGHT. IN ADDITION...BOTH THE ETA/GFS GIVE RATHER UNIFORM QPF
AMOUNTS OVER THE N AND CENTRAL CASCADES WITH MODERATE H850 WLY FLOW
BEHIND THE FRONT TONIGHT. WILL UPDATE THE CURRENT SNOW ADVISORY TO
ADD THE NRN CASCADES AND INDICATE AMOUNTS AROUND 6-10 INCHES FROM
THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT...WITH THE HEAVIEST SNOW EXPECTED
DURING THE EVENING HOURS JUST BEHIND THE FRONT.
MODELS STILL SHOW A POCKET OF CAPE AND SUB ZERO LIS OVER THE
COASTAL WATERS AND ALONG THE COAST THIS AFTERNOON. THUNDERSTORMS
CERTAINLY SEEM POSSIBLE LOOKING AT THE COLD AIR POCKET ALONG 130W.
HAVE SOME CONCERN ABOUT EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE FRONT ITSELF
FURTHER INLAND TODAY BUT NO STRIKES NOTED YET W/ THE FRONT JUST
OFFSHORE. WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGE TO THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE BUT
WILL HAVE TO KEEP AN EYE ON THIS.
SHOWERS WILL BEGIN TO DECREASE MOST AREAS AFTER MIDNIGHT
TONIGHT...EXCEPT PERHAPS THE MOUNTAINS WHERE THE WLY FLOW WILL
CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SNOW. HIGHER PRES WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA ON
SUN AS THE NEXT SYSTEM DEVELOPS OFFSHORE. SHOWERS STILL CANT BE
RULED OUT BUT WILL CERTAINLY BE IN THE SCATTERED VARIETY AND MOSTLY
LIMITED TO THE MOUNTAINS. THE NEXT WARM WILL BEGIN TO SPREAD STEADY
RAIN BACK INTO THE AREA LATE SUN AFTERNOON AND SUN NIGHT. MODELS
ARE UNCLEAR WHETHER THIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD OVER WRN WA OR MAINLY
CLIPS THE NRN PORTIONS OF THE CWA. REGARDLESS...STEADY RAIN WILL
PICK UP SUN NIGHT AND MON AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES IN. MERCER
.LONG TERM...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...A PROGRESSIVE WESTERLY FLOW
PATTERN SETS UP MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. LATEST 00Z GFS BRINGS A
FRONTAL WAVE SOMETIME DURING THE DAY ON MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. WET WEEK. WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS SOME NICE
MOIST TROPICAL MOISTURE HANGING AROUND 35N NORTH OF HAWAII THAT THE
FIRST THREE SYSTEMS CAN TAP INTO. THESE SHOULD BE WETTER...BUT THE
RELATIVELY FAST MOVEMENT OF THE FRONTS SHOULD MITIGATE ANY FLOODING
PROBLEMS EXCEPT FOR THE SKOKOMISH RIVER.
THE SKOKOMISH WILL LIKELY FALL BELOW FLOOD STAGE THIS
AFTERNOON...BUT WILL REBOUND ON MONDAY. RATHER THAN ISSUE A FLOOD
POTENTIAL OUTLOOK FOR JUST MASON COUNTY...WILL MENTION THE PRECIP
NEXT WEEK AND THE PROBABLY RETURN TO FLOOD STAGE. KAM
&&
.AVIATION...CEILINGS GENERALLY AROUND 5K FT WITH RAIN BANDS PASSING
THROUGH AND LOWERING CEILINGS TO 3K FT. EXCEPTION IS NW CORNER WHERE
THERE IS PATCHY FOG WITH IFR CEILINGS AND VISIBILITIES. COLD FRONT
MOVING THROUGH TODAY SHOULD CLEAR OUT THE FOG AND GIVE A LITTLE
CLEARING THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SW WIND AT KSEA 10-15 KT. CHB
&&
.SEW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
.SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY COAST AND STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA.
.SNOW ADVISORY NORTH AND CENTRAL CASCADES THIS AFTERNOON AND
TONIGHT.
.FLOOD WARNING SKOKOMISH RIVER.
.KATX...VCP21/CSR21 OPERATIONAL.
WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A 5 year old girl died while hiking near Lake Whatcom, when a tree branch fell on her.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strong Wind, Western Whatcom | 2006-01-07 | 5 | Female | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, January 2006
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: 5486709.