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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Pendleton, OR

July 31, 1997Crook County, Deschutes County, Oregon

NWS Pendleton, OR issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 31, 1997, 2:50 PM PDT for Crook County, Deschutes County, Oregon. It was in force for 40 min. 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 31, 1997, 2:50 PM PDT (21:50 UTC)
Expired: Jul 31, 1997, 3:30 PM PDT
In force: 40 min
Issued by: NWS Pendleton, OR
Area: Whole counties

Counties Crook County, OR, Deschutes County, OR

The radar

The Pendleton radar (KPDT), 240 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:50 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 31, 2:07 PM PDT, 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 2:07 PM PDT, 43 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 31, 12:50 PM PDT, 2 hours 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, 5:29 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PDT	Wasco	2 hr
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, 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

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Oregon, 1997 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997

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.