1 dead from falling tree as storm hits Washington, knocking out power for 650,000
A woman in her 50s was killed in Lynwood, fire officials said.
At least one person was killed and 2 people were injured by falling trees in Washington Tuesday night, as an atmospheric river carried strong winds into the Pacific Northwest, knocking out power to many.
A woman in her 50s was killed in Lynwood after a tree fell onto a homeless encampment, South County Fire said on Facebook. In Puget Sound, two were transported to hospitals when a tree fell on a trailer.
"One patient was extricated in a short period of time. It took firefighters an hour to extricate the second patient," Puget Sound Fire said.
About 650,000 customers in Washington were without power just after midnight, according to Poweroutage.us, a site tracking energy providers. The majority of the outages were in Snohomish County and King County, which includes Seattle.
A massive plume of moisture from the Pacific called an atmospheric river hit the West Coast on Tuesday afternoon and is expected to last into Friday.
The storm had been expected to become a bomb cyclone -- which means the pressure in the center of the storm will drop 24 millibars within 24 hours. It became one of the coast, near Vancouver Island, Canada, where winds gusted near 101 mph.
The storm could be so strong that it even drops close to double that rate -- meaning more than 40 millibars in 24 hours.
From northern California to northern Washington, winds gusted 50 to 84 mph. Damage was reported along the Pacific Northwest I-5 urban corridor.
As the storm sits and spins over the ocean for the next couple of days, it will help to push the atmospheric river into Oregon and northern California.
ABC News' Emily Shapiro contributed to this report.