Three people wading in the water near the north jetty in Tillamook were swept out to sea by a sneaker wave. Two of the people made it to shore safely, but one did not.
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.
Three people wading in the water near the north jetty in Tillamook were swept out to sea by a sneaker wave. Two of the people made it to shore safely, but one did not.
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 Aug 4, 1:51 PM PST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR 251 PM PDT MON AUG 4 2014 .SYNOPSIS...WARM SUMMER PATTERN CONTINUES A BIT LONGER...WITH SUNNY BUT HAZY CONDITIONS THROUGH TUE. OVERNIGHT/AM LOW CLOUDS ON THE COAST WILL PUSH A BIT INLAND AGAIN TONIGHT. INCREASING WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT TUE NIGHT AND WED WILL BRING MORE LOW CLOUDS TO THE INTERIOR...WITH HIGHS RETURNING TO NEAR OR JUST A TAD BELOW NORMAL FOR REST OF THE WEEK. TURNING WARMER NEXT WEEKEND...WITH A RENEWED THREAT OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE CASCADES. && .SHORT TERM... MORNING CLOUDS ARE JUST ALONG THE BEACHES THIS AFTERNOON...BUT WILL CHARGE INLAND AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON. OTHERWISE MOSTLY SUNNY ACROSS THE REGION UNDER DRY AND WARM SW FLOW ALOFT. HAZY AND SMOKEY CONDITIONS REMAIN OVER THE INTERIOR. THIS SMOKE IS FROM THE FIRES OVER SW OREGON AND NW CALIF. THOUGH THICKER SMOKE WILL BE OVER LANE COUNTY AND LINN COUNTY AND SOUTHWARD. LITTLE CHANGE IN MOISTURE PATTERN WITH THE INSTABILITY. THIS KEEPS MAIN THREAT OF TSTORMS OVER SE HALF OF OREGON...AND MAYBE JUST CLIPPING CASCADES CREST IN SE LANE COUNTY. HAVE LEFT 20 PCT CHANCE OF A TSTORMS FOR THAT AREA UNTIL 9 PM TODAY...THOUGH CONFIDENCE NOT ALL THAT GREAT AND SUSPECT THAT CHANCE IS STILL TOO HIGH. AS FLOW TURNS MORE WESTERLY ALOFT ON TUE AND TUE NIGHT...THE TSTORM THREAT WILL SHIFT FURTHER TO E AND S OF WILLAMETTE PASS. THIS WIND CHANGE ALOFT WILL SHIFT THE SMOKE BACK TO THE EAST...WITH GRADUALLY IMPROVING CONDITIONS LATER TUE AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A WEAK FRONT WELL OFFSHORE WILL PUSH ACROSS THE REGION TUE NIGHT AND WED. THIS WILL BRING INCREASING ONSHORE FLOW...WITH TEMPS COOLING BACK TO NEAR NORMAL OVER THE INTERIOR. THIS MEANS HIGHS IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S. ALSO...SHOULD BE PLENTY OF CLOUDS ACROSS REGION WED...WITH CLEARING OVER INTERIOR IN AFTERNOON. ROCKEY. .LONG TERM...THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY. WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT WITH NNW-ERLY BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW WILL KEEP TEMPERATURES FAIRLY CLOSE TO NORMAL. MODELS ARE IN FAIRLY GOOD AGREEMENT THAT LATE THIS WEEKEND RIDGING WILL BUILD OVER THE WESTERN CONUS...SHIFTING UPPER-LEVEL FLOW OVER US TO SOUTHWESTERLY WHICH WILL INCREASE TEMPERATURES FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. -MCCOY && .AVIATION...WINDS SHIFTED ONSHORE AT ONP WITHIN THE PAST HOUR AND AS SUCH COASTAL STRATUS HAS BEGUN A SECOND INLAND PUSH THERE. LOW CIGS WILL MOVE BACK OFFSHORE IF WIND DIRECTION VEERS EVEN 10-20 DEGREES SO WILL KEEP AN EYE ON OBS FOR A BIT LONGER BEFORE AMENDING. AST FLIRTING WITH THE FRONT EDGE OF THE MARINE STRATUS PUSH AND THUS WILL LIKELY SEE AT LEAST TEMPO MVFR CIGS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. SMOKE FROM FIRES IN SW ORE AND NW CALIF WILL CONTINUE TO CREATE HAZY CONDITIONS MAINLY FROM KONP TO KPDX AND POINTS SOUTH. SMOKE THICKEST AT 6000 TO 9000 FT MSL. KPDX AND APPROACHES...VFR WITH LAYER OF SMOKE BETWEEN 6K AND 9K FT TO S AND E OF KPDX. MODELS INDICATING A STRONGER MARINE PUSH TONIGHT SO HAVE INTRODUCED MVFR CIGS EARLY TUESDAY MORNING. BOWEN && .MARINE...WIND WAVE CONTINUES TO DOMINATE THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY SO HAVE STAYED WITH COMBINED SEAS DURING THE FIRST PERIOD. BUOYS NORTH OF 29 SHOWING SW SWELL WHICH WILL OVERTAKE THE MARINE AREA BY TUESDAY. WINDS AND SEAS REMAIN BENIGN THROUGH WEDNESDAY WHEN THE RIDGE BEGINS TO WEAKEN AS LOW PRESSURE APPROACHES THE AREA. IN THE END THOUGH...IMPACTS WILL BE MINIMAL AS THE LOW REMAINS OFFSHORE AND EVEN THE HIGHEST WINDS IN THE FORECAST AT THIS POINT ARE MARGINAL SCA. BOWEN && .PQR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...NONE. WA...NONE. PZ...NONE. && INTERACT WITH US VIA SOCIAL MEDIA WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/US.NATIONALWEATHERSERVICE.PORTLAND.GOV WWW.TWITTER.COM/NWSPORTLAND 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.
1 high surf. Local standard time, as filed.
Media reports that a large sneaker wave took three people wading in the water near the north jetty of Tillamook out to see. Two of the people made it back to shore safely, but one did not, and was presumed to have drowned.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Surf, Northern Oregon Coast | 2014-08-04 | 19 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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