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The Great Coastal Storm of 2007 was a series of three powerful Pacific
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that affected the
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s of
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and
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and the
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of
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between December 1 and December 4, 2007. The storms on December 2 and 3 produced an extremely long-duration wind event with hurricane-force wind gusts of up to at Holy Cross, Washington, on the Pacific coast, and at Bay City on the
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. The storm also brought heavy rains, producing widespread record flooding throughout the region, and was blamed for at least 18 deaths. Meteorologists at the Oregon Climate Service named the storm in January 2008, drawing from the
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, a similar powerful storm that affected the region in 1880.


Meteorological synopsis

On November 29, 2007, a strong
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, fed by the remnants of Typhoon Mitag and
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, formed in the central Pacific Ocean, and was carried via the Pineapple Express to the
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. Anticipating the storm, the
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issued its first-ever hurricane-force wind warning for the Oregon Coast. The first of the three separate storms arrived on December 1, accompanying frigid temperatures and up to of snowfall in Washington. On December 2, the second storm, which provided considerable amounts of rainfall, yet still packing cold temperatures, dumped even more snow across parts of the state, resulting in several districts in Mason County and
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to close due to heavy snow. At around 5:30 p.m., the snow began to cease, and turned into a light rain across Washington. On December 2, the second storm made landfall on the Oregon Coast, with the hurricane-force winds and mild temperatures. In as little as two hours, temperatures across the region jumped from near freezing to above in areas just as the first bands of the heavy rain were hitting. The storm moved northward through Oregon and Washington with heavy rain, including in 24 hours in
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, accompanying the wind. The rapid rise in temperature caused the recent snow to melt quickly, indicating that record flooding was imminent across much of the region. Flood warnings across five rivers in Washington were issued late in the afternoon, well before any started to rise (by the 11 p.m. nightly newscasts in Seattle, the flood warnings were updated to include every mountain-fed river in the state). The
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was the first to hit flood stage at 2:45 a.m. on December 3, as drenching rains were still pelting the area. Other rivers in the state began to flood their banks at around the same time, and images of widespread flooding began showing up on the morning newscasts of every Seattle and Portland television station. By the morning of December 3, extreme wind speeds by the third and most powerful Pacific storm began hitting much of the WA and OR coasts with widespread peak gusts of at official NWS weather stations as well as unofficial stations and those run by
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weather spotters. Locations which had gusts over included Naselle Ridge, Bay Center,
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and Cape Disappointment in
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and Bay City, Lincoln City,
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, Cape Blanco, Rockaway Beach, Astoria, and Tillamook in
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. Wind gusts up to extended southward into extreme northern
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. These winds were highly centralized along the coastal sections. While Hoquiam, Washington's Bowerman Field Automated Surface Observation System was reporting winds of before it was knocked out of service, the
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at Olympia airport, to the east, was largely reporting calm winds. Many coastal residents did not receive warning of the severity of the wind event until after it had already commenced, illuminating a disconnect between Puget Sound (Seattle) television stations and the rural coast. Instead, the television stations focused much of their coverage on severe flooding in Southwest Washington. The storm moved into British Columbia, which received heavy amounts of snow due to a previous low including the coastal sections including Vancouver,
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where snow is a rare occurrence even during the winter. The storm later weakened across the
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towards central
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and traveled through the Midwest and Middle Atlantic states on December 4–5, where light snow fell in
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and most of the Ohio Valley. Reports of 4 to 8 inches of snow were widespread throughout the area, with of
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recorded near
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.


Impact

Across the region, at the height of the storm, 75,000 customers in Washington lost electric service, and another 36,000 in Oregon were without power. Many remained without power for several days. Nearly all of Pacific and
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counties in Washington were without electric service after a Bonneville Power Administration high voltage transmission tower was destroyed by high wind. Crews from around the United States and British Columbia worked for weeks to repair system damage. Numerous streets and highways were flooded and impassable, including of the region's main north–south artery,
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near
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, that was closed for several days because of flooding from the Chehalis River, which was under about of water; the recommended detour added about four hours and .
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train service between
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and
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was also disrupted. I-5 remained closed until late Thursday December 6 when it was open to commercial traffic. It reopened to all traffic sometime the next day. According to Washington State Governor
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, damages from the storms may exceed a billion dollars.


Oregon

Flooding from the
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and landslides caused the city of
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to be completely cut off from the rest of Oregon. Some residents were evacuated by the
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. Along the Oregon Coast, both
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and
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service remained out for several days due to damaged cables. The storm's intensity was compared to the
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, which caused widespread wind damage to the Pacific Northwest in October 1962, and the Willamette Valley Flood of 1996, which produced widespread flooding. All highways between the
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and the central and northern Oregon Coast (including
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,
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,
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, and
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) were closed for most of December 3 because of flooding, trees blocking the roadway, or landslides. Flooding and erosion in the
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canyon severely damaged sections of the
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, which the port later abandoned. The storm also killed a 700-year-old
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known as the Klootchy Creek Giant, once considered the largest sitka spruce in the world. Winds snapped the tree, a popular tourist destination along U.S. 26 east of
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, at about above the ground. On December 3, Oregon governor
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declared a
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for
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, Columbia, Tillamook, and Yamhill counties. On December 11, the
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closed
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west of Clatskanie due to landslide danger by debris-clogged Tansy Creek. As of December 21, 2007,
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, Clatsop, Columbia,
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, Tillamook, and Yamhill counties were eligible for federal disaster aid. At least 5 people were killed in Oregon from the storm disaster. Total direct public losses were about $300 million, with $62 million in infrastructure and $94.1 million in housing alone. Timber losses also account for $42 million. Indirect losses were expected to surpass direct losses by a factor of at least 5. The television series ''
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'' was shot during the storms and has footage of the damage.


Washington

In Washington, the
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used helicopters to evacuate more than 300 residents from their homes. Citing rains, flooding, landslides, road closures, and extensive property damage, Washington governor
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declared a state of emergency for the entire state on December 3. Many local governments also declared a state of emergency and issued evacuation orders. The city of
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urged evacuation for the North Creek Business Park after flooding overtook several routes out of the business park and threatened to top over the North Creek levee in several places. Flooding overtook numerous streets and filled many parking lots through the business park. Workers for
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sandbagged parts of the levee to protect that section of the business park.Seattle Times
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and flooded sections of downtown Woodinville after a stump blocked a culvert, sending water flooding into Little Bear Parkway. Parts of Highway 522 were damaged, leaving it with limited capacity for several days after the water receded. Late in the afternoon on December 3, the flooding of the Chehalis River forced the closure of Interstate 5 in the Chambers Way area, and by the next day a stretch of the freeway was covered by as much as ten to fifteen feet of water in locations. The floodwaters did not start receding until December 5. Late in the evening on December 6, the Washington State Department of Transportation reopened one lane for commercial truck traffic, following the next day with reopening all lanes of traffic. As of December 22, 2007 Clallam,
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,
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, Kitsap,
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, Snohomish, and
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Counties were eligible for federal disaster aid. At least 8 people were killed in Washington by the storms, two in Grays Harbor County. The storm caused at least $1 billion in damage to Washington.


British Columbia

To the north, heavy snow in the Prince George area was responsible for an accident that killed five people. Across British Columbia, several thousand homes and businesses lost power, extensive rains of well over and melting snows caused extensive flooding, and 15 homes were evacuated because of a rapidly rising river filled with debris near the
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in Strachan Point north of Vancouver. The seawall of Vancouver's
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was also damaged by a mudslide as a result of the storms, causing
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$9 million in damage. The seawall had been reopened on November 16 after repairs in the wake of the Hanukkah Eve Windstorm of the previous December.


See also

*
2007 Pacific typhoon season The 2007 Pacific typhoon season was a near average season which featured 24 named storms, fourteen typhoons, and five super typhoons. It was an event in the annual cycle of tropical cyclone formation, in which tropical cyclones form in the weste ...
*
Great Gale of 1880 The Great Gale of 1880 was an intense extratropical cyclone (possibly deeper than ) that impacted the Northwest United States on January 9, 1880. The greatest snowstorm, and perhaps overall worst storm in SW Washington and NW Oregon history, was ...
*
Columbus Day storm of 1962 The Columbus Day storm of 1962 (also known as the big blow of 1962, and originally in Canada as Typhoon Freda) was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that struck the West Coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on Octobe ...
*
South Valley Surprise of 2002 The South Valley Surprise of 2002 was a Pacific Northwest windstorm that affected the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington (state), Washington, California, Nevada, and Idaho on February 7, 2002. Overview The storm underwent Rapid intensificat ...
*
Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006 The Hanukkah Eve windstorm of 2006 was a powerful Pacific Northwest windstorm in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States and southern British Columbia, Canada between December 14, 2006, and December 15, 2006. The storm produced hurric ...
*
Global storm activity of 2006 Global weather activity of 2006 profiles the major worldwide weather events, including blizzards, ice storms, tropical cyclones, tornadoes, and other weather events, from January 1, 2006, to December 31, 2006. Winter storms are events in which th ...
* January 2012 Pacific Northwest snowstorm *
November 2024 Northeast Pacific bomb cyclone A powerful extratropical cyclone developed  November 18, 2024, in the Northeast Pacific and struck the Western United States and Western Canada. The storm underwent bombogenesis, rapidly dropping its central pressure to a record-t ...


References


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