Brief high wind occurred at Sandy Point Shores.
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 occurred at Sandy Point Shores.
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 3, 9:15 PM PST, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Seattle WA
915 PM PST Tue Jan 3 2017
.SYNOPSIS...Cold dry weather will continue for Western Washington
this week, with windy conditions in the north interior and the
east Puget Sound lowlands tonight and Wednesday. Highs will be in
the lower to mid 30s, with lows in the upper teens and 20s until
warming arrives Friday and Saturday. A front should arrive late
Saturday through Sunday for rainy weather for the lowlands.
&&
.SHORT TERM...Offshore flow will increase through Wednesday.
Easterly Cascade gap winds tend to be the strongest along I-90
west of Snoqualmie Pass down to around North Bend and also in
spots like Enumclaw. A wind advisory is in effect. East winds
could spread out as far as Tacoma like the UW wrfgfs has been
showing. The cold dry pattern with strong offshore flow will
change Thursday and Friday, with much lighter pressure gradients
and also moisture increasing in northwest flow aloft. There
could be some flurries on Friday but the 00z GFS only shows
a little precip on the coast and up around Mt. Baker--and then
that precip shifts north a little Friday night as the flow
aloft continues to back to southwesterly.
.LONG TERM...A frontal system will move into Western Washington
from the southwest Saturday and Saturday night. The timing of its
arrival is somewhat uncertain, but precipitation will probably
reach Seattle in the afternoon or evening. A cold air mass will
still be over the Western Washington interior lowlands when
precipitation begins, so there could be some lowland snow -- or
rain and snow mixed, or even freezing rain -- before the
transition to a more mild maritime air mass is completed Saturday
night. Moist southwest flow will keep widespread rain over the
lowlands Sunday through Monday, with probably a break to more
showery weather on Tuesday.
This looks like another period of good snow production in the
mountains. The snow level will rise to around 3500 ft Sunday
night then fall to around 1500 ft Monday night and Tuesday. There
will be precipitation most of the time Saturday night through
Tuesday, and snowfall totals of 1 to 3 ft look reasonable.
McDonnal
&&
.AVIATION...A strong upper ridge axis extending from the Gulf of
Alaska into northern B.C. will spread southeast toward western
Washington over the next 24 hours. This will support a dry and
stable air mass. Cloud-free conditions through Wednesday.
Moderate-strong east flow aloft. Low-level offshore flow will
weaken starting late Wednesday morning. Upslope clouds near Port
Angeles will dissipate on Wednesday as the air mass continues
drying and the prevailing northeast winds ease on Wed PM.
KSEA...Clear skies and northeast surface wind will continue
through Wed evening. Haner
&&
.MARINE...Strong high pressure extending from the interior of
British Columbia into Eastern Washington will give increasing east
to northeast pressure gradients through early Wednesday morning.
Pressure gradients will slowly relax Wednesday afternoon and
Wednesday night as the high to the east weakens. Gale warnings are
in effect for the northern inland waters, the central and west
portions of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the northern two-
thirds of the coastal waters for the increase in offshore flow
tonight into Wednesday.
Light offshore flow is expected on Thursday.
Southeast offshore flow will increase Friday and Saturday as low
pressure rides northward through the offshore waters and pressures
remain high east of the Cascades. Haner
&&
.HYDROLOGY...No flooding is expected for the next 7 days.
&&
.SEW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
WA...Wind Advisory until 3 PM PST Wednesday for East Puget Sound
Lowlands.
Wind Advisory until 9 AM PST Wednesday for San Juan County-
Western Whatcom County.
PZ...Small Craft Advisory until 6 PM PST Wednesday for Coastal Waters
From Point Grenville To Cape Shoalwater 10 To 60 Nm-Coastal
Waters From Point Grenville To Cape Shoalwater Out 10 Nm.
Gale Warning until 11 AM PST Wednesday for Coastal Waters From
Cape Flattery To James Island 10 To 60 Nm-Coastal Waters
From Cape Flattery To James Island Out 10 Nm-Coastal Waters
From James Island To Point Grenville 10 To 60 Nm-Coastal
Waters From James Island To Point Grenville Out 10 Nm-West
Entrance U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca.
Small Craft Advisory until noon PST Wednesday for East Entrance
U.S. Waters Strait Of Juan De Fuca.
Gale Warning until noon PST Wednesday for Northern Inland Waters
Including The San Juan Islands.
Gale Warning until 3 AM PST Wednesday for Central U.S. Waters
Strait Of Juan De Fuca.
Small Craft Advisory until 4 PM PST Wednesday for Puget Sound
and Hood Canal.
&&
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www.weather.gov/seattle/gafd/latest_webafd.html1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sandy Point Shores recorded a gust of 58 mph. Puget Sound Energy responded to a number of power outages.
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