Seaside Lifeguards and Seaside Fire & Rescue responded to multiple swimmers caught up in rip currents during the weekend. There was one fatality.
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.
Seaside Lifeguards and Seaside Fire & Rescue responded to multiple swimmers caught up in rip currents during the weekend. There was one fatality.
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 20, 1:19 AM PST, 8 hours 41 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Portland OR 219 AM PDT Sat Aug 20 2022 .SYNOPSIS...Typical summertime weather is expected through the weekend. A passing trough will push in a quick cool down for Monday, before high pressure builds back into the PacNW for another hot stretch by midweek. && .SHORT TERM...Through Monday...Nighttime microphysics satellite imagery shows marine stratus has blanketed NW Oregon and SW Washington. With some weak uplift in the lower levels forecast by model soundings, drizzle will be possible again this morning in the north Oregon/south Washington Cascade Foothills, the Coast Range, and along the coast below roughly 3.5kft - where the Astoria Profiler suggests the top of the marine layer is located around 2AM. HREF guidance has been underdoing the sky cover a bit thus far this morning, so the stratus will likely be slower to burn off than it suggests (10-11AM). In some locations, cloud cover may hang on until even afternoon, which will delay surface heating onset and ultimately keep the area relatively cool yet again today. Highs will likely top out in the low to mid 80s inland - warmest in the south Valley - for another seasonable August day. Tomorrow we'll add a few degrees to highs, and a few spots may touch 90, though temperatures were nudged down a bit from NBM's guidance along the coast and in the western and southern Willamette Valley where a marine push is likely to cut highs short of their theoretical max in the late afternoon/early evening. The weak cold front which will drive that onshore push of marine-chilled air will have reached the Cascades by lunchtime Sunday, and consequently the area is expected to remain a bit cooler on Monday, which could wind up being the coolest day of the forecast period. Ultimately, how warm Monday ends up being will be a function of the timing of stratus dissipation - something that's more than a challenge to forecast this far out. -Bumgardner .LONG TERM...Tuesday through Friday... ...Yet another heatwave is in store for the area by mid-week... Tuesday is likely to have another cool start as an upper trough passes through the area early. Enhanced vorticity aloft associated with this feature will provide uplift to deepen the marine layer and bring inland another thick layer of stratus. There are few EC ensemble members which don't paint QPF along the coast Tuesday morning, which would imply another drizzle fest for the usual drizzle-prone areas during strong onshore pushes. The grand ensemble mean suggests we'll be warmer on Tuesday than Monday, but this will again depend on how long it takes for stratus to burn off which is itself dependent on how deep the stratus layer is. By Wednesday, cluster analysis suggests ridging is likely to overtake the PacNW as high pressure over the Pacific migrates and expands eastward. 60% of the grand ensemble suggests 850mb temperatures will surpass 22C Wednesday, and nearly 40% suggest 850mb temps will be 24C or higher Thursday afternoon; the latter would promote high temperatures in at least the mid 90s provided surface heating will fully mix us out - something that may prove difficult given the tendency for onshore flow in patterns where the axis of the upper high is situated to our west. Still, enough ensemble data is pointing to another heat wave that the NBM's forecast for highs in the upper 90s across the interior lowlands for Wednesday and Thursday has not been touched. Friday, NBM suggests we'll begin to cool as a chunk of the ensemble is flattening the ridge with a trough diving southeast across the PacNW. Supposing this trough is not strong enough to flatten the ridge, which has been the case on more than one occasion in the past, the area could stay hot for longer than the mean of the ensemble would suggest. Though it is beyond the scope of our forecast, it's worth mentioning that the trends are for above average temperatures to continue through the upcoming weekend. NBM's 75th percentile for high temperatures each day stays 93 degrees or higher through Monday, August 29th. && .AVIATION...12Z TAFs: As a trough passes to our north and east this morning, the marine layer has been permitted to deepen to around 3500ft. Hence, stratus has crossed the Coast Range and is resulting in MVFR ceilings across the interior lowlands as well as the coast. Such ceilings are likely to continue through around 18-19z inland and 19-21z along the coast (though perhaps slightly longer at KAST). In a mini-ridge of high pressure attempting to build in Saturday evening, subsidence will compress the marine layer a bit. This will prevent it from spilling into the Willamette Valley, but it will also concentrate the moisture closer to the surface along the coast where weak onshore flow will probably result in more MVFR/IFR conditions. For detailed Pac NW aviation weather information, go online to: https://weather.gov/zse KPDX AND APPROACHES...MVFR stratus is likely to continue through around 18-19z today, when surface heating lifts and dissolves the layer. VFR conditions with 5-7kt northwest winds are then expected through the remainder of the forecast period. -Bumgardner && .MARINE...Weak low pressure near Vancouver Island will give way to weak high pressure building across the waters through the weekend. West to northwest winds around 10 kt or less expected to persist through Saturday. Winds become more northerly on Sunday, possibly increasing to around 10-15 kt. Next chance for Small Craft Advisory winds look to be Tue and Wed where wind gusts could exceed 20 kt. Overall, wave heights will be in the 4 to 6 ft range through early next week. For information about upcoming marine zone changes, go online to: https://www.weather.gov/pqr/marinezone && .PQR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...None. WA...None. PZ...None. &&
1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.
Seaside Lifeguards and Seaside Fire & Rescue rescued a total of 16 swimmers who got caught up in rip currents at Seaside and Cannon Beach over the weekend. A man in his 50s was found unconscious in the water near Seaside Saturday afternoon, but efforts to revive him were not successful.
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, Northern Oregon Coast | 2022-08-20 | 55 | Male | In Water | Direct |
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