Hail in Oregon, April 19, 2001

Name: Hail in Oregon, April 19, 2001
Start: 2001-04-19T14:20
End: 2001-04-19T14:20
Location: Oregon

April 19, 2001 · NWS PDT · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Apr 19, 1:55 PM PST, 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 1:55 PM PST, 25 minutes before

NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR
254 PM PDT THU APR 17 2001

UPPER TROUGH CONTINUES OVER THE WESTERN U.S. WITH A COUPLE OF DECENT
DISTURBANCES ROTATING THROUGH IT.  ONE DISTURBANCE IS MOVING THROUGH
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THIS AFTERNOON AND THE OTHER DIGGING SOUTHEAST
OFF THE SOUTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST.  THESE DISTURBANCES WILL
COMBINE TO PRODUCE SOME DECENT PRECIP OVER PORTIONS OF CENTRAL
OREGON DURING THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS.  WARM AIR ADVECTION WILL
STRENGTHEN A DEFORMATION PRECIP/CLOUD BAND TONIGHT RESULTING IN THE
DEVELOPMENT OF STEADY PRECIP THERE LATER TONIGHT.  DIURNAL COOLING
WILL RESULT IN SNOW LEVELS LOWERING BY DAYBREAK...SUCH THAT ADVISORY
LEVEL SNOWS COULD PILE UP OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF CENTRAL
OREGON.  SNOW LEVELS TO RISE FRIDAY REDUCING SNOW THREAT...BUT
INFLOW TO SECOND DISTURBANCE WILL CONTINUE THREAT OF RAIN OVER THIS
REGION INTO FRIDAY NIGHT.  ELSEWHERE PRECIP THREAT WILL DECREASE AS
YOU GO NORTH AS THE INFLUENCE OF THESE SYSTEMS DECREASES.  THUS WILL
INDICATE SLIGHT CHANCE OR CHANCE POPS OVER NORTHEAST OREGON AND
SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON.  MAY BE ENOUGH INSTABILITY FOR A STRAY
THUNDERSTORM OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAIN FOOTHILLS AND LOWER COLUMBIA
BASIN FRIDAY.  INCREASING NORTH FLOW FRIDAY NIGHT WILL INCREASE
CHANCES OF PRECIP INTO THE BLUE MOUNTAINS AND ADJACENT FOOTHILLS.
UPPER RIDGE LOOKS TO NOSE IN TO AREA ON SATURDAY...ALLOWING FOR SOME
DRYING OF THE AIR MASS AND A DECREASE IN INSTABILITY.  GKH

EXTENDED...AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE MOVES THROUGH THE PACNW SUNDAY WITH
DRY CONDITIONS. A COLD FRONT FOLLOWS EARLY MONDAY...PRECEDING AN
ASSOCIATED OFFSHORE TROUGH...AND BRINGING CHANCE POPS TO OUR AREA. A
STRONG RIDGE BUILDS OVER THE WESTERN U.S. AND CANADA TUESDAY...
USHERING IN DRY AND WARMER CONDITIONS THROUGH THURSDAY.  WITH 850 MB
TEMPERATURES IN THE 11C TO 19C RANGE AND WITH AFTERNOON THICKNESS
VALUES OF 558 TO 564 MB...EXPECT HIGH TEMPERATURES WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY IN THE UPPER 70S TO LOWER 80S.  FARMER

PDT 3462  ALW 3341  PSC 2331  YKM 2241

.KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL.

.KPkDT...SNOW ADVISORY ABOVE 3500 FEET LATE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY
        MORNING FOR THE JOHN DAY-OCHOCO HIGHLANDS...NORTH CENTRAL
        OREGON AND CENTRAL OREGON ZONES.

The radar

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Deschutes

When: April 19, 2:20 PM PST
Where: Deschutes County, 7 mi WNW of Brothers
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 43.850, -120.717

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Oregon in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Oregon, April 2001

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: 5240493.