1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 27, 2:00 PM PST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 300 PM PDT WED JUN 27 2001 SOUTHERLY FLOW ALOFT WITH CONTINUED UNSTABLE AIR MASS OVER W WA THIS AFTERNOON WILL CONTINUE THRU EVENING UNTIL UPPER TROUGH AND ASSOCIATED WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES INLAND AROUND 05-06Z OR SO. ONE FAIRLY STRONG SQUALL MOVED THROUGH W WA INTERIOR DURING THE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON AND HAS DISSIPATED NOW. HOWEVER BREAKS IN THE OVERCAST HAVE ALLOWED OTHER CELLS TO DEVELOP MAINLY ALONG THE CASCADES AND FOOTHILLS. THIS AREA ALONG CASCADES ALSO HAS THE MAJORITY OF LIGHTNING STRIKES THIS AFTERNOON. MORE CONVECTION ALSO BREWING OVER NW OREGON PER KRTX DOPPLER. WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR ANY DEVELOPING CONVECTION WHICH MAY PRODUCE HAIL OR STRONG WINDS THRU THE EVENING. BY LATE EVENING EXPECT CONVECTION TO SLOW DOWN WITH SHOWERS DIMINISHING OVERNIGHT. SURFACE RIDGE BUILDS ALONG COAST AFTER MIDNIGHT AND SURFACE RIDGE ALONG COAST EXTENDING OVER W WA DURING DAY THURSDAY. BY FRI OFFSHORE UPPER LOW SHOWS RETROGRESSION IN THE GULF OF ALASKA ALLOWING SURFACE RIDGE TO BUILD NORTHWARD THROUGH THE QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS GIVING A DRIER NORTHERLY BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW TO W WA. CHANCE POPS HELD THRU THU MORNING THEN NEAR ZERO POPS THU NIGHT AND FRI. .EXTENDED...CONTINUE WITH MODELS TREND OF RETROGRESSION OF UPPER RIDGE OVER W AS UPPER LOW IN GULF OF ALASKA ALSO RETROGRESSES. A SHORT WAVE ROUNDING THE GULF OF ALASKA UPPER LOW COULD FLATTEN UPPER RIDGE OVER PACIFIC NW BY JULY 4TH OTHERWISE DRY AND WARMER AFTER SOME CLOUDS AND POSSIBLE MOUNTAIN SHOWERS ON SUN. ART UIL 6210 SEA 6210 OLM 6210 .SEW...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY COAST AND STRAIT JDF. .KATX...VCP21/CSR21.
WAC067-280302-
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
450 PM PDT WED JUN 27 2001
TIME(PDT) CITY LOCATION STATE EVENT/SPOTTER/REMARKS
COUNTY LOCATION
400 PM YELM WA HEAVY RAIN
06/27/01 THURSTON THURSTON 16
8HR PRECIP 1.73 INCHES.
SOME STREETS CLOSED IN
THE CITY OF RAINIER.The Seattle radar (KATX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:42 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A tornado downed numerous trees, damaged several dozen houses, and destroyed 1 metal barn.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Washington, 2001Warnings in Washington, June 2001
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: 5249984.