Funnel Cloud, Southern Willamette Valley
- When
- May 28, 6:00 PM PST to 6:30 PM PST
- Where
- Southern Willamette Valley forecast zone
Funnel Cloud in Oregon, May 28, 1996
A cold unstable airmass and an upper level disturbance over the Pacific Northwest resulted in convective showers and thunderstorms over Central Oregon. Spotters near Redmond reported a funnel cloud lasting for about 10 minutes located 10 to 15 miles north of Redmond.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS PQR wrote it up.
A cold unstable airmass and an upper level disturbance over the Pacific Northwest resulted in convective showers and thunderstorms over Central Oregon. Spotters near Redmond reported a funnel cloud lasting for about 10 minutes located 10 to 15 miles north of Redmond.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5556966.