Brief high wind in the Admiralty Inlet area. The wind did minor damage in the Coupeville area.
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.
Brief high wind in the Admiralty Inlet area. The wind did minor damage in the Coupeville area.
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 8, 3:40 PM PST, 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
340 PM PST THU JAN 8 2009
.SYNOPSIS...ONSHORE FLOW WILL WEAKEN THIS EVENING WITH THE
ATMOSPHERE BECOMING MORE STABLE AS HIGH PRESSURE RIDGING BUILDS IN
TONIGHT. A WARM FRONT WILL BRUSH BY NORTHWEST WASHINGTON ON FRIDAY
AND FRIDAY NIGHT AND THEN EXPAND FURTHER SOUTH ON SATURDAY AND
SATURDAY NIGHT AND LINGER ON SUNDAY. HIGH PRESSURE RIDGING WILL
REBOUND EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH BENIGN WEATHER INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT
WEEK.
&&
.SHORT TERM...AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS HAS NOW MOVED OUT INTO ERN
WA THOUGH AN UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE AND STRONG ONSHORE FLOW CONTINUE
OVER WRN WA. THIS HAS LED TO A WELL-DEFINED PSCZ THAT HAS MOVED
SOUTH THIS AFTERNOON FROM SNOHOMISH INTO NORTH KING COUNTY. ONSHORE
PRESSURE GRADIENTS WILL FLATTEN OUT QUICKLY THIS EVENING...AND
REBOUNDING UPPER HEIGHTS WILL CAUSE THE AIR MASS TO STABILIZE. THIS
WILL CAUSE SHOWER ACTIVITY TO GRADUALLY TAPER OFF THIS EVENING AND
END ALTOGETHER OVERNIGHT. IN THE MEANTIME...HAVE EXTENDED THE WINTER
WEATHER ADVISORY OVER THE CASCADES UNTIL 10 PM. HEAVIEST ADDITIONAL
SNOWFALL AMOUNTS OF UP TO 6 INCHES WILL BE NEAR STEVENS AND
SNOQUALMIE PASSES...WHERE THE PSCZ INTERSECTS THE CASCADES.
LOW-MID LEVEL WARM ADVECTION CRANKS UP ON FRI AND FRI NIGHT. 12Z GFS
KEEP MOST OF THE WARM ADVECTION PRECIP NEAR AND NORTH OF THE
CANADIAN BORDER...BUT THE 12Z NAM RUN SHOWED PRECIP SPREADING AS FAR
SOUTH AS OLM/TCM EARLY FRIDAY EVENING. HAVE ADDED A MENTION OF RAIN
TO THE FORECAST FOR FRI AFTN AND FRI NIGHT WITH THE HIGHEST POPS
NEAR THE CANADIAN BORDER. THE INTERIOR FROM EVERETT SOUTH IS THE
MOST LIKELY AREA TO REMAIN DRY DURING THIS PERIOD.
STILL LOOKS LIKE A DISSIPATING LOW APPROACHING NORTHERN VANCOUVER
ISLAND ON SAT AFTN WHICH SHOULD ENHANCE WARM ADVECTION RAINS OVER
THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA THROUGH SAT NIGHT. THE 18Z NAM IS THE MOST
AMBITIOUS WITH SOME MODERATE RAINFALL AMOUNTS ON SAT NIGHT. EVEN
AFTER THIS SYSTEM DISSIPATES...ENOUGH WARM ADVECTION REMAINS ON
SUNDAY TO KEEP CLOUDS AND CHANCE POPS IN THE FORECAST. HANER
.LONG TERM...STILL JUST CANNOT SHAKE OFF THE CLOUDS AND CHANCE POPS
ON MONDAY AS THE TAIL END OF A SHORTWAVE DIVING SOUTH THROUGH THE
ROCKIES BRUSHES BY AND ENHANCES ONSHORE FLOW. IN THE WAKE OF THIS
SYSTEM...DRIER NORTHERLY FLOW ARRIVES ON TUE. AN UPPER RIDGE AXIS
WILL BE SQUARELY OVER WRN WA ON WED WITH SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE EAST
OF THE CASCADES SUPPORTING MILD AND DRY OFFSHORE FLOW. THE SAME IDEA
GOES FOR THURSDAY. HANER
&&
.AVIATION...NW FLOW ALF BEHIND THE TROF OVER WRN WA WITH STRONG WLY
FLOW THRU THE STRAIT...AND A NW GALE DOWN THE STRAIT OF GEORGIA AS
WELL. THIS HAS PUT A PSCZ OVER THE KING/SNO LINE AT 2PM THAT WILL
DRIFT SOUTH THRU SEATTLE THRU MID TO LATE AFTERNOON. ANOTHER CZ IS
OVER THE SAN JUANS. THE SHOWERS SHUD MOSTLY BE CONFINED TO THE
CONVERGENCE AREAS AND THE CASCADES WITH DRYING...BUT THEN AREAS OF
ST/SC SETTING UP OVERNIGHT AS THE AIR MASS STABILIZES IN LIGHTER
ONSHORE FLOW. 19
KSEA...AT 2PM A PSCZ WAS AT THE COUNTY LINE...SO THAT WILL BE THE
PROBLEM FOR THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON. I THINK BY THE TIME THE 00Z
TAF GOES OUT THE WIND WILL HAVE SHIFTED AT KSEA TO NLY...BUT IT WILL
BECOME VRB04KT LATER THIS EVENING AND BACK TO LIGHT SOUTHERLY BY
DAYBREAK. 19
&&
.MARINE...THE 2PM OB AT PT WILSON OF NW34G54 WAS IMPRESSIVE. HAD TO
EXTEND THE GALE WARNINGS TO THE NRN COASTAL WATERS WEST ENTRANCE TO
THE STRAIT EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. DESTRUCTION AND TATOOSH HAVE NOT
STAYED ABOVE GALE FORCE BUT IN THE BALLPARK. THE GALES FOR THE
CENTRAL/EAST STRAIT AND FOR ADMIRALTY WILL STAY UP INTO THE EVENING.
NOT SURE IF I WILL KEEP THE GALE UP FOR THE NRN WATERS...A
CONVERGENCE ZONE OVER OR JUST NORTH OF THE SAN JUANS IS KEEPING THE
WINDS MERELY BREEZY MOST PLACES...BUT THE FULL WESTERLY GALE AT
TRIAL ISLAND AND THE OB OF NW40 AT TSAWWASSEN PROMPTED ME TO PUT ONE
UP. WINDS WILL BE CLOSER TO W25 MANY SPOTS IN THE SAN JUANS SOUTH
THRU ANACORTES AND EAST OF WHIDBEY. IN ANY EVENT...MY HAVE TO UPDATE
THE FCST LATE THIS AFTERNOON OR EVENING AND DROP A FEW GALES DOWN TO
SMALL CRAFTS. 19
&&
.SEW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WA...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FOR SNOW IN THE NORTH AND CENTRAL
CASCADES UNTIL 10 PM THIS EVENING.
PZ...GALE WARNING ALL WATERS EXCEPT PUGET SOUND.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR ROUGH TO SEVERE BAR CONDITIONS
GRAYS HARBOR BAR.
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE
FOR THE ENHANCED AFD PLEASE VISIT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE/GAFD/LATESTWEBAFD.HTML (ALL LOWERCASE)PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
105 PM PST THU JAN 08 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0850 AM HEAVY RAIN 12 E SHELTON 47.21N 122.85W
01/08/2009 M4.02 INCH MASON WA PUBLIC
RAINFALL FOR 1/7/09. 6.13 INCHES STORM TOTAL.
0930 AM HEAVY RAIN WSW ACME 48.72N 122.21W
01/08/2009 M2.97 INCH WHATCOM WA TRAINED SPOTTER
25 HOUR RAINFALL TOTAL AT 8 AM TODAY. 8.30 INCHES STORM
TOTAL.
1120 AM HEAVY RAIN 1 WNW FEDERAL WAY 47.32N 122.36W
01/08/2009 M5.04 INCH KING WA TRAINED SPOTTER
TOTAL RAINFALL SINCE THE 4TH.
0103 PM TSTM WND GST 1 ENE PORT TOWNSEND 48.13N 122.76W
01/08/2009 M40 MPH PZZ134 WA TRAINED SPOTTER
SEVERAL TREES DOWN.
&&
GRUBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
144 PM PST THU JAN 08 2009
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0143 PM NON-TSTM WND GST 2 NW PORT TOWNSEND 48.14N 122.81W
01/08/2009 M0 MPH JEFFERSON WA TRAINED SPOTTER
36 MPH SUSTAINED GUSTING 47
&&
191 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
There was brief high wind in the Admiralty Inlet area. The winds damaged the roof of the Coupeville warf, and the fuel dock.
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