Heat, Columbia/C & W Multnomah/Washington/Nw Clackamas
- When
- July 26, 12:00 AM PST to July 28, 11:00 PM PST
- Where
- Columbia/C & W Multnomah/Washington/Nw Clackamas forecast zone
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
Heat in Oregon, July 26 to 28, 1998
A three day heat wave brought record high temperatures to western Oregon July 26-28. The high temperature of 99 degrees at Portland International Airport on the 26th eclipsed the previous record for that date of 98 set in 1988, and the high of 101 on the 28th broke the previous daily record of 99 set in 1973.
The toll
- Deaths
- 1
- 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 three day heat wave brought record high temperatures to western Oregon July 26-28. The high temperature of 99 degrees at Portland International Airport on the 26th eclipsed the previous record for that date of 98 set in 1988, and the high of 101 on the 28th broke the previous daily record of 99 set in 1973. In Eugene, the high of 102 on the 26th broke the previous daily record of 101 set in 1988, and the 105 degrees on the 27th tied the record high for the month of July. A 64-year-old Portland woman died of heat exhaustion at Providence Medical Center on the 28th.
Event by event
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Columbia/C & W Multnomah/Washington/Nw Clackamas | 1998-07-28 | 64 | Female | Other | Direct |
What these are
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Texas, July 26, 1998
- Flooding in Missouri, July 26 to 30, 1998
- Flash Flood in Kansas, July 26, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, July 26, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 26, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, July 26, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 26, 1998
- Flash Flood in Missouri, July 26, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, July 26, 1998
- Flash Flood in Colorado, July 26, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 26, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Texas, July 26, 1998
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Oregon, July 1998
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: 5661837.