1 funnel cloud, 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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 18, 8:15 AM PST, 4 hours 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA 915 AM PDT TUE JUN 18 2002 .SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH OVER WASHINGTON WILL MOVE EAST TODAY...ALLOWING AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE JUST OFFSHORE TO MOVE OVER THE AREA WEDNESDAY...AND REMAIN THROUGH FRIDAY. THE AIR MASS WILL GRADUALLY DRY AND WARM UP AS THE RIDGE BUILDS. A PUGET SOUND CONVERGENCE ZONE WILL WEAKEN THROUGH TONIGHT...THEN DISSIPATE WEDNESDAY AS OFFSHORE BEGINS TO DEVELOP. .DISCUSSION...WATER VAPOR IMAGERY SHOWS THE UPPER LEVEL LOW IS RIGHT OVER W WA THIS MORNING AND MDLS TAKE IT FAIRLY RAPIDLY INTO ERN WA BY THIS AFTERNOON. WITH THE COLDEST AIR ALOFT IN THE LOW MISSING THE AFTERNOON HEATING PERIOD WL TAKE OUT THE CHANCE OF TSTMS FROM THE FCST EXCEPT FOR THE PSCZ. MESO-ETA STILL SHOWS ABT 300 J/KG CAPE AVAILABLE THIS AFTN FOR THE PSCZ TO WORK WITH. BREAKS IN CLD COVER OVR NW INTR GIVE A LITTLE HOPE THAT THE 59-60F CONVECTIVE TEMP MIGHT BE REACHED THIS AFTN. UPR RIDGE OFSHR MOVS IN OVR PACNW WED AS UPR LOW MOVS E. THIS SHOULD HOLD THRU FRI AND MAYBE EVEN INTO SAT. SEVERAL THINGS OF INTEREST OCCUR AS RDG BUILDS. PSCZ PERSISTS TONIGHT...BUT SHOULD BE JUST ABOUT GONE BY WED MORNING. OFFSHORE FLOW SHOULD DEVELOP BY WED AFTN WITH WEAK ELY FLOW AT 850 MB DEVELOPING WED NIGHT/THU. WL BOOST MAXES THU AND INCLUDE MORE SUNSHINE. MDLS AGREE THAT A WEAK UPR LOW WILL PENETRATE THE RIDGE THU...BUT LATEST SOLUTIONS TAKE THE LOW S OVER SRN OREGON/N CA WITH ONLY A WEAK UPR TROF OVR THE CASCDS. THE UPR TROF IS WEAK ENOUGH TO HAVE LITTLE EFFECT ON THE SFC PATTERN... HOWEVER WITH THE UPR TROF NEARBY...WL NEED TO REMAIN OPEN TO THE POSSIBILITY OF SOME CONVECTION OVR THE CASCDS. SO FAR THE AMS LOOKS TOO DRY. EXTENDED...NEXT WK FRONT CREEPS UP TO THE CST SAT THEN DISSIPATES... WITH PCPN BARELY BRUSHING THE N CST. WL WAIT TO SEE WHAT THE NEW 12Z AVN HAS BEFORE INCLUDING ANY PCPN IN FCST. KAM UIL 521 SEA 631 OLM 521 .SEW...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY STRAIT OF JUAN DE FUCA. .KATX...VCP21/CSR32...OPERATIONAL.
The Seattle radar (KATX), 131 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:32 UTC.
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
A funnel cloud was sighted in the Gig Harbor area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Washington in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Washington, June 2002
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