Sandy Point Shores had high wind during an outflow event.
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The episode as NWS SEW wrote it up.
Sandy Point Shores had high wind during an outflow event.
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 Feb 28, 9:30 PM PST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
930 PM PST FRI FEB 28 2014
.SYNOPSIS...GUSTY NORTHEAST WINDS THROUGH THE FRASER RIVER VALLEY
WILL BRING A MUCH COOLER AIR MASS INTO THE AREA THROUGH SATURDAY.
THERE WILL BE A CHANCE OF SNOW IN THE LOWLANDS BY SATURDAY
EVENING...MAINLY FROM ABOUT EVERETT NORTH. A WARM FRONT WILL MOVE
THROUGH WESTERN WASHINGTON SUNDAY. FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT
THE LOWLANDS WILL HAVE RAIN. MILD WET WEATHER IS ON TAP NEXT WEEK.
&&
.SHORT TERM...THE BLI-YWL GRADIENT IS -17MB THIS EVENING AND A WIND
ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY FOR THE FRASER
OUTFLOW. WINDS SHOULD PEAK LATE TONIGHT OR SATURDAY MORNING BEFORE
GRADUALLY DIMINISHING. GUSTY EASTERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP SATURDAY
THROUGH THE CASCADES AS WELL. AN UPPER TROUGH WILL BRING AN
INCREASING CHANCE OF PRECIP SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING...WITH
AREAS OF SNOW IN THE NORTH PART OF WRN WA. THE BEST CHANCE OF
ACCUMULATION WILL BE IN THE SAN JUANS...SKAGIT AND WHATCOM
COUNTY...AND PERHAPS CLALLAM AND SNOHOMISH COUNTY. A WARM FRONT WILL
SWEEP THROUGH WRN WA SUNDAY MORNING...ENDING THE THREAT OF SNOW BY
MIDDAY AND FOR THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING RAIN WILL FALL ON ALL OF
WRN WA. PERIODS OF RAIN ARE ON TAP FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK IN MILD MOIST
ZONAL FLOW.
.LONG TERM...A WET UNSETTLED PATTERN WILL PREVAIL AS A SERIES OF
SYSTEMS MARCH THROUGH THE REGION FOR MOST OF NEXT WEEK. THE GLOBAL
MODELS SHOW A GOOD CHANCE OF A TEMPORARY RIDGE BUILDING FOR A COUPLE
OF DAYS TOWARD THE END OF NEXT WEEK.
&&
.HYDROLOGY...RIVER FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED THE NEXT 7
DAYS...ALTHOUGH WILL NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON THE SKOKOMISH RIVER THE
MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK.
&&
.AVIATION...UPPER LEVEL TROUGH BUILDING INTO BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH
NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. AT THE SURFACE...HIGH PRESSURE OVER
BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH LOWER PRESSURE TO THE SOUTH GIVING STRONG
OFFSHORE FLOW. OFFSHORE GRADIENTS WILL EASE SOMEWHAT LATER SATURDAY.
JUST A FEW HIGH CLOUDS OVER THE AREA TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY MORNING.
UPPER LEVEL TROUGH APPROACHING FROM THE NORTH SATURDAY AFTERNOON
ON SATURDAY. MID LEVEL CLOUDS INCREASING SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH
CEILINGS DOWN INTO THE LOW END OF VFR BY 00Z SUNDAY.
KSEA...NORTHEASTERLY WINDS 10-15 KNOTS THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING.
WINDS EASING A LITTLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON. INCREASING MID LEVEL
CLOUDS MIDDAY WITH CEILINGS LOWERING DOWN TO AROUND 4000 FEET LATE
SATURDAY AFTERNOON INTO SATURDAY EVENING. FELTON
&&
.MARINE...SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH STRONG
OFFSHORE PRESSURE GRADIENTS. MOST OF THE GRADIENT CONFINED TO
SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA WITH GALE FORCE NORTHEAST WINDS ONLY IN
THE NORTHERN INLAND WATERS TONIGHT INTO SATURDAY. SMALL CRAFT
ADVISORY WINDS THE REMAINDER OF THE INLAND WATERS. EASTERLY WINDS
PICKING UP ALONG THE COAST OVERNIGHT WITH SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY WINDS
OVER ALL OF THE COASTAL WATERS SATURDAY. OFFSHORE GRADIENTS EASING
LATE SATURDAY INTO SATURDAY NIGHT. OFFSHORE FLOW WILL GRADUALLY EASE
SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT WITH THE LOW LEVEL FLOW SWITCHING BACK TO
ONSHORE BY MONDAY. FELTON
&&
.SEW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WA...WIND ADVISORY WESTERN WHATCOM COUNTY.
PZ...GALE WARNING FOR THE NORTHERN INLAND WATERS.
SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR ALL OTHER AREAS.
&&
YOU CAN SEE AN ILLUSTRATED VERSION OF THE FORECAST DISCUSSION AT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE/GAFD/LATEST_WEBAFD.HTML1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sandy Point Shores had northeast wind as high as 43 mph sustained, gusting to 66 mph, off and on for several hours on the night of February 28 - March 1.
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