URGENT: Heavy winds overnight on West End [Updated forecast]

  • Thursday, November 22, 2012 12:01am
  • News

The National Weather Service has forecast heavy winds for the coastal West End starting tonight and continuing until just before daybreak Friday. Here is the current advisory:

URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA

317 PM PST THU NOV 22 2012

…A VIGOROUS FRONT WILL BRING WINDY CONDITIONS TO PORTIONS OF

WESTERN WASHINGTON TONIGHT INTO FRIDAY MORNING…

WAZ516-230730-

/O.CON.KSEW.WI.Y.0033.121123T0200Z-121123T1400Z/

NORTH COAST-

317 PM PST THU NOV 22 2012

…WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 AM PST FRIDAY…

* SOME AFFECTED LOCATIONS…QUILLAYUTE…AND LA PUSH.

* TIMING…SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL RISE THIS EVENING AND REMAIN

WINDY AT TIMES THROUGH 6 AM PST FRIDAY MORNING.

* WIND…SOUTHEAST WINDS RISING TO 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS TO 45

MPH THIS EVENING…EASING EARLY FRIDAY MORNING.

* IMPACTS…WINDS THIS STRONG CAN SNAP SMALL TREE BRANCHES…

TOPPLE SMALL OR SHALLOW ROOTED TREES…AND CAUSE LOCAL POWER

OUTAGES.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

A WIND ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS OF 30 TO 39 MPH OR

GUSTS OF 45 TO 57 MPH ARE LIKELY.

More in News

Port Townsend Main Street Program volunteers, from left, Amy Jordan, Gillian Amas and Sue Authur, and Main Street employees, Sasha Landes, on the ladder, and marketing director Eryn Smith, spend a rainy morning decorating the community Christmas tree at the Haller Fountain on Wednesday. The tree will be lit at 4 p.m. Saturday following Santa’s arrival by the Kiwanis choo choo train. (Steve Mullensky/for Peninsula Daily News)
Decoration preparation

Port Townsend Main Street Program volunteers, from left, Amy Jordan, Gillian Amas… Continue reading

Port Angeles approves balanced $200M budget

City investing in savings for capital projects

Olympic Medical Center Board President Ann Henninger, left, recognizes commissioner Jean Hordyk on Wednesday as she steps down after 30 years on the board. Hordyk, who was first elected in 1995, was honored during the meeting. (Paula Hunt/Peninsula Daily News)
OMC Commissioners to start recording meetings

Video, audio to be available online

Jefferson PUD plans to keep Sims Way project overhead

Cost significantly reduced in joint effort with port, city

Committee members sought for ‘For’ and ‘Against’ statements

The Clallam County commissioners are seeking county residents to… Continue reading

Christopher Thomsen, portraying Santa Claus, holds a corgi mix named Lizzie on Saturday at the Airport Garden Center in Port Angeles. All proceeds from the event were donated to the Peninsula Friends of Animals. (Dave Logan/for Peninsula Daily News)
Santa Paws

Christopher Thomsen, portraying Santa Claus, holds a corgi mix named Lizzie on… Continue reading

Peninsula lawmakers await budget

Gov. Ferguson to release supplemental plan this month

Clallam County looks to pass deficit budget

Agency sees about 7 percent rise over 2025 in expenditures

Officer testifies bullet lodged in car’s pillar

Witness says she heard gunfire at Port Angeles park

A copper rockfish caught as part of a state Department of Fish and Wildlife study in 2017. The distended eyes resulted from a pressure change as the fish was pulled up from a depth of 250 feet. (David B. Williams)
Author to highlight history of Puget Sound

Talk at PT Library to cover naming, battles, tribes

Vern Frykholm, who has made more than 500 appearances as George Washington since 2012, visits with Dave Spencer. Frykholm and 10 members of the New Dungeness Chapter, NSDAR, visited with about 30 veterans on Nov. 8, just ahead of Veterans Day. (New Dungeness Chapter DAR)
New Dungeness DAR visits veterans at senior facilities

Members of the New Dungeness Chapter, National Society Daughters of… Continue reading

Festival of Trees contest.
Contest: Vote for your favorite tree online

Olympic Medical Center Foundation’s Festival of Trees event goes through Dec. 25