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Marine Strong Wind · Eastern Pacific

Marine Strong Wind May 31, 2014 · East Entrance Us Waters Strait of Juan De Fuca, Eastern Pacific

37 mph
Measured sustained (32 kt)
2
Deaths

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Two enlisted men from Texas and California were not equipped for cold and windy waters when they went fishing from kayaks and drowned not far from the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station. The men were in 10-foot, open, lake-style kayaks, one wearing jeans and the other shorts. They wore recreational life vests. The cause of death was salt water drowning with hypothermia.

The wider storm

Two enlisted men from Texas and California were not equipped for cold and windy waters when they went fishing from kayaks and drowned not far from the Whidbey Island Naval Air Station.

Began near Nas Whidbey Is (48.3602, -122.6654).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 522803. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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