 Intense third in the series of Pacific storms battering the Pacific Northwest. Image taken on December 3, 2007 at 9:30 UTC. | |
| Type | Extratropical cyclones |
|---|---|
| Formed | November 29, 2007 (Dec. 3 storm) |
| Dissipated | December 4, 2007 (Dec. 3 storm) |
| Highest gust | 147 mph (237 km/h) at Naselle Ridge, Washington |
| Lowest pressure | 952 millibars (28.1 inHg) (Dec. 3 storm) |
| Fatalities | 18 fatalities |
| Damage | $1.18 billion (2007 USD) |
| Areas affected | Washington, Oregon, extreme Northern California, Vancouver Island, and southern British Columbia |
Part of the 2007–08 North American winter storms | |
The Great Coastal Storm of 2007 was a series of three powerful Pacific storms that affected the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington and the Canadian province of British Columbia between December 1, 2007 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 137 mph (220 km/h) at Holy Cross, Washington on the Washington Coast, and 129 mph (208 km/h) at Bay City, Oregon on the Oregon Coast.[1][2] The storm also brought heavy rains and produced widespread record flooding throughout the region, and was blamed for at least 18 deaths.[3][4]
Meteorologists at the Oregon Climate Service named the storm in January 2008, drawing from the Great Gale of 1880, a similar powerful storm that affected the region in 1880.[5][6]
- ^ Wolf Read. "Great Coastal Storm of Dec. 1–3, 2007". Office of the Washington State Climatologist. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
- ^ "Oregon Coast Damage 'Worse Than Columbus Day Storm'". BeachConnection. Retrieved 2007-12-04.
- ^ "Death toll from storm in Oregon and Washington rises to 13". The Oregonian. December 6, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-27.
- ^ "5 die in crash near Prince George, B.C." CBC British Columbia. December 3, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-03.
- ^ "December, Columbus Day storms big, but in different ways". OPB News. January 21, 2008. Archived from the original on February 23, 2013. Retrieved 2008-01-22.
- ^ Read, Wolf; Cadee Hale; George Taylor. "The Great Coastal Storm". Oregon Climate Service. Archived from the original on 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-01-22.