Oregon, 2008

Dense Fog in Oregon, November 12, 2008

November 12, 2008 · NWS MFR · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A Butte Falls woman died early Wednesday 11/12/2008 when her minivan veered off Butte Falls Highway and struck a tree. Jackson County deputies identified the woman as Juanita Mae Moore, 66, of Broad Street.

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The toll

Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Property damage
$30,000
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 MFR wrote it up.

A Butte Falls woman died early Wednesday 11/12/2008 when her minivan veered off Butte Falls Highway and struck a tree. Jackson County deputies identified the woman as Juanita Mae Moore, 66, of Broad Street.

A passing driver spotted the single-vehicle crash in the 11000 block of the highway leading to and from Butte Falls at 7:39 a.m.

Moore's 2003 Pontiac Montana had left the road and hit a tree about 150 feet from the pavement. The pavement was wet and a light fog blanketed the area of the crash.

The weather was probably a contributing factor, said Sheriff Mike Winters.

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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 11, 2:44 PM PST, 16 hours 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 11, 2:44 PM PST, 16 hours 46 minutes before
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Event by event

1 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.

Dense Fog, Jackson County

When
November 12, 7:30 AM PST
Where
Jackson County forecast zone
Deaths
0 direct, 1 indirect
Property damage
$30,000
Reported by
Newspaper
Coordinates
42.432, -122.728 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A Butte Falls woman died early Wednesday 11/12/2008 when her minivan veered off Butte Falls Highway and struck a tree. Jackson County deputies identified the woman as Juanita Mae Moore, 66, of Broad Street.

A passing driver spotted the single-vehicle crash in the 11000 block of the highway leading to and from Butte Falls at 7:39 a.m.

Moore's 2003 Pontiac Montana had left the road and hit a tree about 150 feet from the pavement. The pavement was wet and a light fog blanketed the area of the crash.

The weather was probably a contributing factor, said Sheriff Mike Winters.

The people who died

As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.

EventDateAgeSexWhereKind
Dense Fog, Jackson County2009-11-1266FemaleVehicle/Towed TrailerIndirect

What these are

Dense Fog
Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

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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: 134971.