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High Wind Watch 8, NWS Portland, OR

October 13, 2016

NWS Portland, OR issued this high wind watch at Oct 13, 2016, 2:49 PM PDT. It took effect at Oct 15, 2016, 12:00 PM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 13, 2016, 2:49 PM PDT (21:49 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 15, 2016, 12:00 PM PDT
Expired: Oct 14, 2016, 2:52 PM PDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Portland, OR

What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Oct 13, 10:00 AM PDT, 4 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 10:00 AM PDT, 4 hours 49 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Oct 13, 12:59 PM PDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
1259 PM PDT THU OCT 13 2016

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1240 PM     NON-TSTM WND DMG 4 SW SAUVIE ISLAND      45.63N 122.87W
10/13/2016                   MULTNOMAH          OR   PUBLIC

            TREE DOWN OVER CORNELIUS PASS RD. BETWEEN
            US-30 AND SKYLINE BLVD.

&&

BENTLEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 12, 7:04 PM PDT	High Surf Advisory	PQR		27 hr
Oct 13, 2:58 AM PDT	Small Craft Advisory for Rough Bar	PQR		5 days
Oct 13, 8:28 AM PDT	Wind Advisory	PQR		14 hr
Oct 13, 3:07 PM PDT	Hurricane Force Wind Watch	PQR		35 hr
Oct 13, 2:21 PM PDT	River Flood Warning	PQR	Wahkiakum	21 hr

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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.