About 40,000 people lost power as a frontal system moved through northwest Washington.
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.
About 40,000 people lost power as a frontal system moved through northwest Washington.
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 9, 9:20 AM PST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 920 AM PST TUE JAN 9 2007 .SYNOPSIS...A COLD FRONT WILL BRING RAIN AND WIND TODAY. AN UPPER TROUGH WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA TONIGHT WITH SHOWERS. RAIN SHOWERS WILL LIKELY TURN TO SNOW SHOWERS BY WEDNESDAY MORNING WITH LOCAL ACCUMULATIONS POSSIBLE. A MODIFIED ARCTIC FRONT WILL MOVE SOUTH THROUGH THE REGION WEDNESDAY NIGHT BRINGING COOLER AIR. DRY MODIFIED ARCTIC AIR WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. && .SHORT TERM...A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH LATER TODAY. RAIN SHOULD DEVELOP BY AFTERNOON THEN TURN TO SHOWERS THIS EVENING. EXPECT DECENT SOUTHERLY WIND AHEAD OF THE FRONT...WIND ADVISORY LEVELS MANY AREAS. THERE WILL BE A GOOD WEST PUSH THROUGH THE STRAIT LATE THIS AFTERNOON BEHIND THE FRONT. CURRENTLY HAVE HIGH WIND WARNINGS EASTERN STRAIT INTO EVERETT AREA FOR THIS. UIL-BLI PEAKS AT AROUND +7 MB AND MM5 HAS MAX WEST WINDS AROUND 30 KNOTS SO HIGH WIND WARNINGS MAY NOT WORK OUT. SINCE IT WILL BE CLOSE...AM LEERY OF DROPPING THE WARNINGS BEFORE THE EVENT EVEN DEVELOPS AND WILL LET THE CURRENT WARNINGS REMAIN IN EFFECT. WILL SEE SOME SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH AND BEHIND THE FRONT. HAVE A SNOW ADVISORY FOR THIS. QPF LOOKS IMAGINABLE AT BEST FOR SNOW ADVISORY AMOUNTS BUT IT WILL BE CLOSE. A VERY COLD UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL MOVE OVER THE AREA TONIGHT BEHIND THE FRONT...COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW ALL AREAS BY MORNING EVEN WITH ONSHORE FLOW. IN ADDITION...MODELS SHOW A SHORT WAVE MOVING THROUGH BETWEEN 12Z AND 18Z...BRINGING AN ENHANCED SHOT OF PRECIPITATION. THIS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW MANY AREAS AND WILL PROBABLY NEED TO ISSUE A SNOW ADVISORY THIS AFTERNOON TO COVER THIS. MODIFIED ARCTIC AIR WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND LINGER THURSDAY AND FRIDAY FOR COLD BUT GENERALLY DRY WEATHER. NORTHERLY UPSLOPE WINDS INTO THE OLYMPICS WILL LIKELY KEEP SNOW HANGING AROUND THE STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA INTO THURSDAY. HIGHS WILL STRUGGLE TO REACH FREEZING THURSDAY AND FRIDAY WITH LOWS IN THE TEENS MANY AREAS. CURRENT FORECAST GENERALLY ON TRACK. NO UPDATES PLANNED THIS MORNING. SCHNEIDER .LONG TERM...FROM PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS CLOSE ENOUGH TO THE W COAST TO KEEP DRY BUT COOL OFFSHORE FLOW OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE WEEKEND. TEMPS SHOULD MODIFY SLIGHTLY EACH DAY SAT/SUN...BUT STILL REMAIN A LITTLE BELOW AVERAGE. MODELS MAINTAIN THE RIDGE INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH DRY WEATHER. LOOKS LIKE A STRING OF VERY NICE DAYS IN STORE...WE ARE DUE MERCER && .AVIATION...PUGET SOUND BASKING IN A LARGE BREAK IN THE CLOUDS THIS MORNING...BUT STRONG FRONT MOVING IN WILL LOWER CEILINGS THROUGH THE DAY. EXPECT 6K-9K FT CEILINGS LATER THIS MORNING...3K-4K FT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WITH RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS. VISIBILITY OCCASIONALLY LOWERING TO 3-5SM IN RAIN. KSEA...S WIND 10-15 KT THIS MORNING RISING TO 18-24KT THIS AFTERNOON...THEN WITH FRONTAL PASSAGE SW20G30KT FOR A FEW HOURS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. COLD FRONT BRINGS COLD AIR TONIGHT... COLD ENOUGH FOR SNOW. HIGHER ELEVATION OF KSEA MAKES IT A GOOD CANDIDATE FOR A LITTLE ACCUMULATION...PERHAPS 1 INCH LATE TONIGHT AND ANOTHER INCH OR TWO WEDNESDAY. .MARINE...GALE WARNINGS IN EFFECT FOR ALL WATERS FOR SE WINDS AHEAD OF THE FRONT THIS MORNING...WEST AND SW WINDS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. POTENTIAL FOR BRIEF STORM FORCE WIND EXISTS PARTICULARLY AT THE EAST ENTRANCE TO THE STRAIT...WITH STRONG WEST TO NORTHWESTERLY PUSH LATE THIS AFTERNOON BEHIND FRONT. BURKE && .SEW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .HIGH WIND WARNING EASTERN STRAIT...ADMIRALTY INLET...WESTERN SKAGIT COUNTY...AND EVERETT AND VICINITY FROM NOON TO 7 PM TODAY. .WIND ADVISORY REMAINING INTERIOR LOWLANDS FROM UNTIL 9 PM TODAY. .SNOW ADVISORY CASCADES LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. .GALE WARNING ALL WATERS. .SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GRAYS HARBOR BAR FOR ROUGH BAR CONDITIONS. WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
141 PM PST TUE JAN 09 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0139 PM NON-TSTM WND GST 6 NE BELLINGHAM 48.80N 122.37W
01/09/2007 M53 MPH WHATCOM WA TRAINED SPOTTER
OCCURRED AT 101 PM.
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GRUB2 strong wind, 1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Downed trees and power lines blocked several roads.
Downed trees and power lines blocked several roads, including SR 9 and SR near Sedro-Woolley.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, January 2007
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: 10811, 10809, 10810.