Girl injured by sneaker wave near Yachats.
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.
Girl injured by sneaker wave near Yachats.
1 sneakerwave. Local standard time, as filed.
A large, long period swell produced a high-end sneaker wave threat to the Oregon coast October 17-19. A young girl was caught in a sneaker wave on the beach near Yachats, OR and was fortunately saved by a stranger.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Oregon in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, October 2023
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1145733.