Name: High Wind in Washington, October 25, 2025
Start: 2025-10-25T13:00
End: 2025-10-25T20:00
Location: Washington

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $60,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS PQR wrote it up.

A strong surface low quickly deepened offshore due west of the mouth of the Columbia River and progressed towards the Olympic Peninsula allowing for a tight surface pressure gradient to drive strong to locally high winds region-wide. This surface gradient was also aided by a strong band of west-southwest winds just above the surface (often called a sting jet) which pivoted over the region through the day on Oct. 25th.

What forecasters said that day

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 Oct 25, 11:04 AM PST, 1 hour 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 25, 11:04 AM PST, 1 hour 56 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, South Washington Coast

When: October 25, 1:00 PM PST to 8:00 PM PST
Where: South Washington Coast forecast zone
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph) measured gust
Property damage: $60,000
Reported by: Mesonet
Coordinates: 46.551, -123.779 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A peak gust of 59 mph was measured at the Toke Point mesonet station at 1930 PST, and this station was at or near warning criteria from 1700 PST to 2000 PST. Additional a 60mph peak gust was measured at the Astoria-Megler Bridge mesonet station at 1743 PST. This station was at or near warning criteria 1300 to 1930 PST. It's worth noting the Pacific County Emergency Manager estimated around $60,000 dollars worth of damage was produced from this storm.

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Washington in 2025 Every state in 2025 This day in weather history Warnings in Washington, October 2025

Sources

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: 1297361.