A group of eight people were caught in a rip current near Ocean Shores. They all eventually escaped to shore, but one person went back in to the water to help others.
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The episode as NWS SEW wrote it up.
A group of eight people were caught in a rip current near Ocean Shores. They all eventually escaped to shore, but one person went back in to the water to help others. He was then swept out to sea and became missing, presumed drowned.
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 Jul 26, 7:55 PM PST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
855 PM PDT SAT JUL 26 2014
.SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION THROUGH
MUCH OF NEXT WEEK FOR DRY WEATHER WITH ABOVE NORMAL DAYTIME
TEMPERATURES.
&&
.SHORT TERM...UPPER HEIGHTS WILL GRADUALLY RISE OVER WESTERN
WASHINGTON THROUGH TUESDAY AS AN UPPER RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE
INNER-MOUNTAIN WEST. AT THE SAME TIME...WEAK LOW LEVEL ONSHORE FLOW
WILL PREVAIL. THIS WILL PRODUCE SUNNY DAYS AND MOSTLY CLEAR NIGHTS.
HIGHS WILL WARM ANOTHER 5 DEGREES OR SO SUNDAY...THEN PERHAPS A FEW
MORE DEGREES ON MONDAY WITH TUESDAY ABOUT THE SAME AS MONDAY. 80S
SHOULD BE COMMON MONDAY AND TUESDAY WITH 70S IN THE USUAL COOLER
LOCATIONS NEAR THE WATER AND AT THE COAST.
FOR TONIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING...LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL REMAIN
NORTHERLY AND SATELLITE DOES NOT CURRENTLY SHOW ANY LOW CLOUDS...
UNLIKE YESTERDAY EVENING WHEN THERE WERE SOME PATCHES AROUND. THESE
INGREDIENTS SUGGEST THERE WILL NOT BE MUCH IF ANY LOW CLOUDS SUNDAY
MORNING. THERE MIGHT BE SOME PATCHY VALLEY FOG AGAIN IN THE MORE
PRONE LOCATIONS BUT PROBABLY LESS THAN WHAT WE HAD THIS MORNING...
WHICH WAS NOT THAT MUCH. SCHNEIDER
.LONG TERM...PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...NO MAJOR CHANGES ARE ANTICIPATED
IN THE OVERALL PATTERN. AN UPPER RIDGE WILL DOMINATE THE WEATHER
PATTERN OVER MUCH OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST DURING MUCH OF THIS
PERIOD.
THE MEDIUM RANGE SOLUTIONS INDICATED THAT THE RIDGE AXIS WILL MOVE
FARTHER EAST LATE IN THE PERIOD...PLACING THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
MORE UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF AN UPPER TROF. THE MAIN IMPACT THIS
WOULD HAVE ON OUR WEATHER WOULD BE TO INITIATE A STRONG ONSHORE
PUSH...LEADING TO COOLER TEMPS AND MORE CLOUDS. HAVE CHOSEN NOT
TO BITE OFF COMPLETELY ON THIS IDEA SINCE IT WAS STILL TOO FAR
IN THE FUTURE BUT THERE IS A CHANCE THAT THE PREDICTED TEMPS FOR
DAYS 6 AND 7 MIGHT BE TOO WARM.
CONCERNING TSTM POTENTIAL...AT THIS TIME...IT APPEARS THAT THE
THREAT OF TSTMS DURING THIS PERIOD WILL REMAIN EAST AND SOUTH
OF THE CWA. THE GFS SOLUTION CONTINUED TO BE THE OUTLIER IN
SHOWING THE POTENTIAL FOR TSTMS ALONG AND JUST WEST THE CASCADE
CREST BEGINNING AS EARLY AS WED NIGHT.
&&
.AVIATION...THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS WILL
CONTINUE TO BUILD THROUGH EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH PERSISTENT
SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. RISING HEIGHTS
OVER THE REGION WILL ALSO HELP KEEP THE AIR MASS OVER WESTERN
WASHINGTON DRY AND STABLE THROUGH SUNDAY. LOW LEVEL ONSHORE FLOW
WILL BRING LOW CLOUDS TO THE COAST AND STRAIT LATE THIS EVENING INTO
EARLY SUNDAY MORNING...SKIES WILL REMAIN CLEAR ALL OTHER AREAS.
STRATUS WILL CLEAR OVER THE COAST AND STRAIT BY LATE MORNING.
KSEA...CLEAR SKIES THROUGH SUNDAY MORNING. NORTH WINDS 4 TO 9 KTS
WILL BECOME NORTHEASTERLY AND LIGHT AROUND MIDNIGHT.
&&
.MARINE...A PERSISTENT PATTERN OF HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE COASTAL
WATERS AND LOWER PRESSURE INLAND WILL SUPPORT ONSHORE FLOW THROUGH
EARLY NEXT WEEK. STRONGEST WINDS WILL OCCUR THROUGH THE CENTRAL AND
EAST STRAIT...LIKELY REACHING SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY LEVELS AT TIMES
ESPECIALLY DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.
NORTHWESTERLY WINDS WILL PERSIST OVER THE COASTAL WATERS WITH
WESTERLY SWELL 4 TO 5 FEET. AREAS OF FOG WILL DEVELOP LATE TONIGHT
OVER THE COASTAL WATERS AND STRAIT...PERSISTING INTO SUNDAY MORNING
BEFORE CLEARING BY MIDDAY.
&&
.SEW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WA...NONE.
PZ...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY INNER COASTAL WATERS...CENTRAL AND EAST
STRAIT.
&&
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE
YOU CAN SEE AN ILLUSTRATED VERSION OF THE FORECAST DISCUSSION AT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE/GAFD/LATEST_WEBAFD.HTML1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
A group of eight people were caught in a rip current near Ocean Shores. All escaped to shore but one went back in to help others, was swept out to sea, became missing after a US Coast Guard and other authority search, and presumed dead.
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 Coast | 2014-07-26 | 18 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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