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October 12th each year marks the anniversary of the Columbus Day
Storm of 1962, the strongest non-tropical wind storm in our nation's recorded history to ever
strike the contiguous 48 states.
This storm produced a wide path of destruction from the San
Francisco Bay Area north to southern British Columbia. It
produced category 4 hurricane-force winds, the strongest in
excess of 130 MPH along the Oregon coast.
The Storm killed 46 people, injured hundreds more, produced
widespread property damage, knocked out power to millions of
homes and businesses, and blew down over 15 billion board feet
of timber from the coast to western Montana.
A brochure about this historic storm, as well as
preparedness information for such hurricane-force winds is attached:
WindstormBro.pdf. |
www.weather.gov 
