Name: Damaging Wind in Oregon, July 12, 2001
Start: 2001-07-12T19:34
End: 2001-07-12T19:34
Location: Oregon

Where it happened

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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 happened

The episode as NWS MFR wrote it up.

A Severe Thunderstorm Warning was issued for Southwest Jackson county at 1835 PDT on 07/12/01, expiring at 1951 PDT 07/12/01. A spotter near Ruch reported dime size hail at 1934 PDT, verifying the warning. Quarter size hail was also reported with this storm in the Applegate area.

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 Medford, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 12, 7:30 PM PST, 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 12, 7:30 PM PST, 4 minutes before

SOUTHWEST OREGON/NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OR
830 PM PDT THU JUL 12 2001

SHOWER ACTIVITY OVER SOUTH WESTERN OREGON HAS BEGUN TO WIND DOWN THIS
EVENING. EXPECT ACTIVITY TO CONTINUE TO DIMINISH TOWARDS MIDNIGHT AS
LARGE AREA OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY DISSIPATES AND HEADS NORTH. LATEST
MODEL DATA IS SUPPORTING A MORE STABLE DAY WEST OF THE CASCADES ON
FRIDAY...BUT STILL SEE SUFFICIENT INSTABILITY FOR SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE CASCADES EAST DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING
HOURS. CURRENT FORECAST COVERS THIS WELL. ONLY UPDATE CHANGE WILL BE
TO TOUCH UP SOME OF THE POPS OVER THE FORECAST AREA FOR THE REMAINDER
OF THIS EVENING. ROSSI

.MFR...NONE.

OTH BE 050/063 050/063 049 130000
4BK BE 050/065 049/063 048 130000
RBG BB 056/082 055/080 053 130000
MFR BB 055/088 055/085 053 132000
LMT BB 045/083 042/081 042 130222
LKV BB 046/082 045/082 044 130222
MHS BB 047/083 046/081 045 130110

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 12, 5:41 PM PST, 1 hour 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
541 PM PST THU JUL 12 2001

TIME(PST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0759 AM    LAKEVIEW                  OR
07/12/01   LAKE                           SPOTTER REPORTED 0.09IN OF
                                          RAIN ON 7/11 WITH THUNDER
                                          AND LIGHTNING 8 MI W OF
                                          LAKEVIEW

0801 AM    FT ROCK                   OR
07/12/01   LAKE                           SPOTTER LA113 REPORTED 0.5
                                          IN RAIN IN 30 MIN BETWEEN
                                          430 AND 5 PM ON 7/11 ALSO
                                          NICKEL SIZE HAIL NEAR LA
                                          PINE BT HWY31 JUNCT 37

0536 PM    RUCH                      OR
07/12/01   JACKSON                        SPOTTER JA33 REPORTS .60
                                          IN RAIN, HAIL AT
                                          645PM.NEAR BUNCUM.

Local storm report, Jul 12, 6:52 PM PST, 42 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEDFORD OREGON
652 PM PST THU JUL 12 2001

TIME(PST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0634 PM    RUCH                      OR   .75 INCH HAIL
07/12/01   JACKSON                        SPOTTER NEAR RUCH REPORTED
                                          DIME SIZED HAIL.

The radar

The Medford radar (KMAX), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:33 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Jackson

When: July 12, 7:34 PM PST
Where: Jackson County, Ruch
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 42.432, -122.728 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

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What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Oregon in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Oregon, July 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: 5256670.