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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Downed trees, mudslide-blocked roads and widespread power outages plagued the Northeast Tuesday, a day after the second of back-to-back storms moved out of region and left residents with a massive cleanup.
The storm that hit Monday smacked the region with hurricane-force winds and several inches of rain, and was blamed for four deaths in Oregon and Washington state. It came only a day after another severe system moved through Sunday. ...
Most of the Olympic Peninsula, Kitsap County and southwest Washington were hit particularly hard. Nearly 75,000 customers lost power in the state, and more than 50,000 were still without power Tuesday morning, emergency management officials said. In Oregon, Portland-based Pacific Power said about 36,000 customers were without power Tuesday morning. ...
The back-to-back storm fronts Sunday and Monday were among the Northwest's worst in recent memory. The first storm marched across the country, killing at least 15 people, mostly in traffic accidents and dumping snow from the Midwest to the Northeast.
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December starts off with a bang, as the National Weather Service in Portland issued its first-ever hurricane force wind warning today for coastal waters from Cape Shoalwater, Wash., south to Florence.
COASTAL WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WA TO CASCADE HEAD OR OUT 20 NM-WATERS FROM CAPE SHOALWATER WA TO CASCADE HEAD OR FROM 20 TO 60 NM-248 PM PST SAT DEC 1 2007 ...GALE WARNING NOW IN EFFECT THROUGH LATE TONIGHT... ...STORM WARNING NOW IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING... ...HURRICANE FORCE WIND WARNING IN EFFECT FROM SUNDAY EVENING THROUGH MONDAY MORNING...
Bill Schneider, science and operations, NWS explains:
The directive that gave offices the authority to issue a "Hurricane Force Wind Warning" in the marine forecast was issued May 21, 2002. In the five years since then, none has been issued along the West Coast of the lower 48 United States. The purpose here is to highlight the extreme nature of rare storms that may only occur once every 5 to 10 years.
These storms are "extra tropical cyclones", meaning they don't have the structure of a hurricane, and should not be confused with an actual hurricane (we won't give them names or anything like that). Storms like this approaching the West Coast are normally much larger in areal extent than a typical hurricane and have much broader impact zone where damaging winds can occur.
The current threat appears to be mostly to the water and the immediate coastline. We noticed Thursday that moisture from three separate tropical cyclones will likely be drawn into this one large storm over he next several days. This is storm has the potential to damage ships or cargo and will be difficult to avoid due to the huge area it will cover.
High winds, big waves
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http://www.ocs.orst.edu/storm_king_site/December2007.html
A truly historic storm event, the Great Coastal Gale of December 1-3, 2007 will likely be remembered for many years. Over a period of three days, two separate storms lashed the coast with an incessant onslaught of hurricane-force gusts and heavy rain. The region between approximately Newport, OR, and Hoquiam, WA, received the strongest gale since the great Columbus Day Storm of 1962, with perhaps some areas of southwest Washington receiving even a stronger blow. Even though the October 1962 storm proves stronger in overall wind speed at many locations, the December 1-3, 2007 gale completely outclasses the Columbus Day Storm, and probably any other windstorm in the modern record, in terms of the duration of high winds.
This windstorm will take some time to analyze, and this webpage will be updated as the examination continues and time permits. At this moment, all information on this page is preliminary.
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http://certlvh.blogspot.com/2007/11/monste...-system-to.html
Matt Zaffino, meteorologist for KGW (8) in Portland, said the storm's deep area of low pressure is one of the strongest he's seen in recent memory, even stronger than the Columbus Day Storm of October 1962. He predicted that this storm, however, won't be as damaging as that storm because it will stay farther offshore.
Even so, Zaffino said, "This thing is an absolute monster -- it covers the entire Northeast Gulf of Alaska.





