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Strong Wind in Bellevue and Vicinity, Washington

Strong Wind September 20, 2015 · Bellevue and Vicinity, Washington

38 mph

Measured sustained (33 kt)

Death

What the National Weather Service wrote

A woman and two men were on a 21-foot catamaran that overturned in high winds and choppy water around 5 p.m. on Lake Washington near Bellevue. The police department's Harbor Patrol pulled the men out of the water, but the woman was trapped beneath the catamaran and drowned.

The wider storm

A woman and two men were on a 21-foot catamaran that overturned in high winds and choppy water Sunday on Lake Washington near Bellevue. The police department's Harbor Patrol pulled the men out of the water, but the woman was trapped beneath the catamaran and drowned.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 602412. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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