1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Sep 17, 1:30 PM PST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
NORTHEAST OREGON/SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OR 230 PM PDT MON SEP 17 2001 CUMULUS CLOUDS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THE EASTERN MOUNTAINS. ONLY A FEW CUMULUS ARE SHOWING SIGNS OF VERTICAL DEVELOPMENT. A WEAK SHORTWAVE QUICKLY MOVING ACROSS BC AND NORTHERN WASHINGTON WILL MOVE INTO IDAHO BEFORE SUNSET. WILL MENTION A FEW SPRINKLES THIS EVENING OVER THE BLUES AND WALLOWAS BUT WILL NOT MENTION SHOWERS. CLOUDS WILL DIMINISH AS THE SHORTWAVE RIDGE MOVES OVER THE REGION. THE AIR MASS IS QUITE A BIT DRIER COMPARED TO YESTERDAY AS SEEN ON 24-HOUR CHANGE OF RELATIVE HUMIDITY. THEREFORE...MINIMUM TEMPERATURES TONIGHT WILL BE SEVERAL DEGREES COOLER THAN THIS MORNING. THE UPPER FLOW WILL BECOME WESTERLY TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. A FAST MOVING DISTURBANCE MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN WASHINGTON TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY WILL DO LITTLE EXCEPT FOR SOME MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS OVER THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA AS WELL AS LOCALLY BREEZY WINDS ON WEDNESDAY. SMITH EXTENDED...WEAK RIDGING LATE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY BEFORE THE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES IN LATE SATURDAY. LIKE THE MODEL TREND OF SLOWING THINGS DOWN AND WILL PROBABLY SEE THIS TREND CONTINUE WITH THE NEXT FEW RUNS. AS SUCH WILL KEEP CHANCE OF LIGHT PRECIPITATION IN MOST ZONES DAY 5 AND 6. THEN ZONAL FLOW DAY 7 TO KEEP MENTION OF PRECIPITATION IN UPSLOPE AREAS...OTHERWISE DRY. TOBIN PDT 0000 ALW 0000 PSC 0000 YKM 0000 .KPDT...WSR-88D...VCP21/CSR21...OPERATIONAL. .KPDT...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning struck a power pole, knocking out power to around 260 customers of the Oregon Trail Electric Cooperative for around 3 hours. Other small outages affected around 50 residences near Elgin.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5268729.