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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 47, NWS Pendleton, OR

July 30, 1997Wasco County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1997, 5:29 PM PDT for Wasco County, Oregon. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 30, 1997, 5:29 PM PDT (00:29 UTC)
Expired: Jul 30, 1997, 7:30 PM PDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Area: Whole counties

County Wasco County, OR

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 153 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Pendleton, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 30, 2:04 PM PDT, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 30, 2:04 PM PDT, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Pendleton, OR issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 30, 5:06 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Umatilla	69 min
Jul 30, 6:05 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Umatilla	55 min
Jul 30, 6:41 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Morrow, Umatilla	64 min
Jul 30, 7:22 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Wasco	68 min
Jul 30, 7:49 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Morrow, Umatilla	56 min
Jul 30, 8:30 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Morrow, Umatilla	60 min
Jul 30, 9:24 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Morrow, Umatilla	96 min
Jul 31, 2:50 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Crook, Deschutes	40 min
Jul 31, 3:15 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Umatilla, Union	45 min
Jul 31, 3:30 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Crook, Jefferson	60 min
Jul 31, 4:00 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Umatilla, Union	60 min
Jul 30, 6:54 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Columbia, Walla Walla	51 min
Jul 30, 6:58 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Columbia, Walla Walla	47 min
Jul 30, 8:55 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Benton, Franklin, Walla Walla	2 hr
Jul 30, 9:38 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning	PDT	Columbia, Franklin, Walla Walla	82 min
Jul 30, 9:38 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Columbia, Franklin, Walla Walla	82 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.