Rip currents along the Oregon Coast resulted in one fatality and multiple rescues near Lincoln City.
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 PQR wrote it up.
Rip currents along the Oregon Coast resulted in one fatality and multiple rescues near Lincoln City.
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 Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 28, 7:45 AM PST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR 845 AM PDT FRI JUN 28 2013 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE WILL LEAD TO AREAS OF FOG ALONG THE COAST...ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE CASCADES AND HOT TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST THROUGH THE WEEKEND. EVEN HOTTER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED EARLY NEXT WEEK...AT WHICH TIME VALLEY LOCATIONS COULD EVEN SEE A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO...BUT CONFIDENCE REMAINS LOW. EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO COOL A BIT LATE IN THE WEEK AS MORNING CLOUDS BECOME MORE PREVALENT. && .SHORT TERM...MADE MINOR CHANGES TO SKY COVER WITH THE MORNING UPDATE AS SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS ABUNDANT CLEAR SKIES ACROSS MOST OF THE AREA. HOWEVER...THERE ARE LOW CLOUDS AND/OR PATCHY FOG HANGING AROUND NEAR THE COAST AND TO THE NORTH. THE UPPER RIDGE HAS PUSHED THE CLOUDS AND RAIN OFFSHORE TODAY AND INTERIOR TEMPERATURES WILL SOAR INTO THE UPPER 80S AND POSSIBLY A FEW LOCAL SPOTS REACHING 90 F THIS AFTERNOON. SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY WILL INCREASE ALONG THE CASCADE CREST LATE THIS AFTERNOON WHERE THERE MAY BE SOME AFTERNOON SHOWERS OR THUNDERSTORMS. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE NEAR 140W WILL BRUSH BY THE COAST LATE TONIGHT. MODELS HINT AT THE POTENTIAL OF MID LEVEL INSTABILITY OVER THE NW CORNER OF THE FORECAST AREA DUE TO COLD AIR ADVECTION AS THIS FEATURE SWINGS OVER THE AREA. LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE PV ANOMALY MAY BE ENOUGH TO PRODUCE SOME ELEVATED CONVECTION LATE TONIGHT OVER OUR NORTHWEST WATERS BUT THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF THE FORETELLING ACCAS TODAY...AND HAVE DECIDED TO REMOVE THE MENTION OF THUNDERSTORMS FOR TONIGHT. THIS FEATURE WILL BRING A SURGE OF MID-LEVEL MOISTURE AND LIKELY ENHANCE MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS TONIGHT AND SATURDAY MORNING RESULTING IN SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPERATURES SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THIS COOLING WILL BE HARDLY NOTICEABLE HOWEVER...ESPECIALLY WITH THE HUMID CONDITIONS. ADDITIONAL SURFACE BASED INSTABILITY MAY LEAD TO A THUNDERSTORM OR TWO ALONG THE CASCADE CREST SATURDAY AFTERNOON. MODELS SUGGEST THE AREAS AROUND WILLAMETTE PASS AND MOUNT ADAMS WOULD BE THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE. SOUTHWESTERLY STEERING FLOW SHOULD ONCE AGAIN KEEP STORMS NEAR THE CREST AND POINTS EAST. INSTABILITY LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE SHUNTED EAST OF THE AREA SUNDAY SO EXPECT A MOSTLY SUNNY DAY WITH HIGHS NEAR 90F FOR INTERIOR VALLEYS. HIGH DEWPOINTS AND LIGHT FLOW OVER THE WATERS WILL LIKELY RESULT IN COASTAL FOG AND CLOUDS CONTINUING.TH/NEUMAN .LONG TERM...LOCAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTS HEAT ADVISORIES AND/OR EXCESSIVE HEAT WATCHES/WARNINGS MAY BE NECESSARY GIVEN THE COMBINATION OF TEMPERATURES AND UNUSUALLY HIGH DEWPOINTS MONDAY AND TUESDAY. AS A RESULT...WE WILL CONTINUE THE SPS. THE LARGE SHORTWAVE TROUGH CURRENTLY OFF THE COAST WILL DIG FURTHER SOUTH EARLY NEXT WEEK RESULTING IN THE AMPLIFICATION OF THE FOUR CORNERS HIGH PRESSURE. THIS WILL PLACE THE REGION IN DEEP SOUTHERLY FLOW. MODELS CONTINUE TO SUGGEST A SLUG OF NEGATIVE 700-500MB THETAE LAPSE RATES WILL OVERSPREAD THE REGION LATE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING. MODELS SHOW DECENT INSTABILITY OVER THE AREA MONDAY AND TUESDAY...ESPECIALLY IN THE MID LEVELS...BUT THINK THERE WILL BE A STRONG CAP TO OVERCOME TO GET A LOT OF CONVECTION GOING. ESPECIALLY SINCE THERE DOES NOT SEEM TO BE ANY UPPER LEVEL FORCING TO PROVIDE ADDED LIFT. WILL CONTINUE THE SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CASCADES WITH THE REST OF THE AREA MOSTLY DRY. TH/NEUMAN THOSE INTERESTED IN USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO DISCUSS THE UPCOMING HEAT SPELL...PLEASE CONSIDER USING #HEATWAVE AS A HASHTAG. && .AVIATION...VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL THROUGH THIS EVENING EXCEPT ALONG THE IMMEDIATE COASTLINE...WHERE PATCHES OF IFR/LIFR FOG WILL PERSIST. EXPECT CUMULUS BUILDUPS OVER THE CASCADES THIS AFTERNOON...WITH A THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE OVER THE CASCADES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. KPDX AND APPROACHES...IFR CEILINGS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR SO...OTHERWISE EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS THROUGH SATURDAY AND BEYOND. CUMULUS BUILDUPS ARE LIKELY OVER THE CASCADES THIS AFTERNOON...WITH AN AFTERNOON OR EVENING THUNDERSTORM POSSIBLE FOR EASTERN APPROACHES...LIKELY WELL EAST OF THE TERMINAL. && .MARINE...WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN OVER THE WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN OREGON COASTAL WATERS THROUGH THE WEEKEND. OTHERWISE PRESSURE GRADIENTS WILL REMAIN WEAK THROUGH MONDAY...LIKELY RESULTING IN LIGHT WINDS AND SEAS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL STRENGTHEN OFFSHORE BY MIDWEEK...WITH INLAND HEAT GENERATING A STRONG THERMAL LOW EAST OF THE COAST RANGE. THIS SHOULD ALLOW NW WINDS TO INCREASE TUE/WED. MOIST SUBTROPICAL AIR MASS MAY LEAD TO SOME AREAS OF DENSE FOG OVER THE WATERS THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS. && .PQR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...NONE. WA...NONE. PZ...NONE. && MORE WEATHER INFORMATION ONLINE AT... HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/PORTLAND THIS DISCUSSION IS FOR NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FROM THE CASCADE CREST TO 60 NAUTICAL MILES OFFSHORE. THE AREA IS COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THE FORECAST AREA.
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR 634 AM PDT FRI JUN 28 2013 ORZ005>009-014-WAZ022-023-039-291645- LOWER COLUMBIA-GREATER PORTLAND METRO AREA- CENTRAL WILLAMETTE VALLEY-SOUTH WILLAMETTE VALLEY- WESTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE-UPPER HOOD RIVER VALLEY-I- 5 CORRIDOR IN COWLITZ COUNTY-GREATER VANCOUVER AREA- 634 AM PDT FRI JUN 28 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY HIGH TEMPERATURES IN THE LOW TO MID 90S AND UNUSUALLY HIGH RELATIVE HUMIDITIES ACROSS INTERIOR VALLEYS ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY WILL EXACERBATE HEAT RELATED HEALTH ISSUES. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT LIKELY BE NEEDED TODAY. ORZ001>004-010>013-WAZ019>021-040-291645- NORTH OREGON COAST-CENTRAL OREGON COAST- COAST RANGE OF NORTHWEST OREGON- CENTRAL COAST RANGE OF WESTERN OREGON- NORTHERN OREGON CASCADE FOOTHILLS-NORTHERN OREGON CASCADES- CASCADE FOOTHILLS IN LANE COUNTY-CASCADES IN LANE COUNTY- SOUTH WASHINGTON CASCADES-WILLAPA HILLS-SOUTH WASHINGTON COAST- SOUTH WASHINGTON CASCADE FOOTHILLS- 634 AM PDT FRI JUN 28 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT LIKELY BE NEEDED TODAY.
2 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A 54 year-old Vancouver woman died after being caught in a rip current near Lincoln City. Two other swimmers were able to swim back to shore.
Two people were rescued from the D River Wayside near Lincoln City, Oregon. Shortly after this rescue, three more people were rescued from rip currents at Roads End Park near Lincoln City.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rip Current, Central Oregon Coast | 2013-06-28 | 54 | Female | In Water | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, June 2013
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: 457644, 457650.