Name: Hail in Oregon, August 5, 2003
Start: 2003-08-05T12:30
End: 2003-08-05T12:30
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 PQR wrote it up.

No damage reported.

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 Portland, OR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 5, 8:00 AM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 5, 8:00 AM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes before

NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
900 AM PDT TUE AUG 5 2003

.SYNOPSIS...AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFF THE S OREGON COAST
WILL MOVE NORTHEAST AND CROSS THE FORECAST AREA TODAY AND TONIGHT.
THE LOW WILL SPREAD MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIR ACROSS THE REGION AS IT
CROSSES. ONSHORE FLOW WILL INCREASE AS THE LOW PASSES BY SPREADING IN
COOLER MARINE AIR INLAND TODAY AND WED. ANOTHER LOW WILL DROP DOWN TO
OFF THE WA COAST THU AND FRI.

.DISCUSSION...
.SHORT TERM...UPPER LOW APPROACHING THE S OREGON COAST THIS MORNING.
LARGE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SW QUARTER OF
FORECAST AREA IS LIFTING NNW...AWAY FROM AREA OF BEST INSTABILITY.
EXPECT THIS AREA OF CONVECTION TO CONTINUE LIFTING N TODAY WHILE
GRADUALLY WEAKENING AS IT CONTINUES TO OUTPACE THE SPEED OF THE
WEAKENING UPPER LOW AS IT LIFTS N.  AS MORNING CLOUDS THIN SHOULD SEE
ENOUGH WARMING TO DESTABILIZE ATMOSPHERE AGAIN LATER TODAY...
ESPECIALLY OVER CASCADES...SO WILL CONTINUE WITH CHANCES FOR
THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

VORT MAX ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE UPPER TROUGH NEAR 44N 133W IS
FORECAST BY MODELS TO ROTATE S TONIGHT...THEN LIFT NE WED POSSIBLY
GRAZING SE PART OF FORECAST AREA.  WILL KEEP IN MENTION FOR A SLIGHT
CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS LANE COUNTY CASCADES LATE TOMORROW.

.LONG TERM...NO CHANGES. PREVIOUS DISCUSSION FOLLOWS...MODELS IN
DECENT AGREEMENT KEEPING A TROUGH JUST OFF THE COAST THROUGH MOST OF
EXTENDED.  MAIN PRECIPITATION CHANCES APPEAR TO BE FRI AND AGAIN
MON.  MODELS CONTINUE TO ROTATE A VORT MAX AROUND THE LOW BRUSHING
AGAINST THE NW PART OF THE FORECAST AREA THU INTO EARLY FRI.  WILL
KEEP A CHANCE OF SHOWERS GOING IN THE NW AND OVER THE NORTHERN
CASCADES THU...AND RUN A SLIGHT CHANCE ALONG THE COAST INTO FRI.  GFS
ROTATES ANOTHER SHORTWAVE DOWN INTO BASE OF TROUGH BY MON PUSHING THE
MAIN TROUGH AXIS CLOSER TO COAST.  ALTHOUGH ENSEMBLES AT THIS RANGE
PREDICTABLY SHOWING A LITTLE CHAOS...CANADIAN OPERATIONAL RUN APPEARS
TO SUPPORT THIS IDEA...SO WILL ADD A BROAD BRUSHED CHANCE OF SHOWERS
TO MON.

AST 44113 PDX 44112 SLE 74111 EUG 44111

.PQR...NONE.

Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 5, 4:30 AM PST, 8 hours before

ORZ001>013-WAZ019>023-039-040-061230-

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OREGON
530 AM PDT TUE AUG 5 2003

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHWEST OREGON AND SOUTHWEST
WASHINGTON.

.DAY ONE... TODAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY

NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 5, 10:08 AM PST, 2 hours 22 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PORTLAND OR
1108 AM PDT TUE AUG 05 2003

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

0800 AM    LEBANON                   OR   LIGHTNING
08/05/03   LINN                           *** 1 INJ *** 8 YEAR OLD
                                          FEMALE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

MO

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:30 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Clackamas

When: August 5, 12:30 PM PST
Where: Clackamas County, 10 mi E of Zigzag
Measured: 0.88 in hail
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 45.333, -121.733

What these are

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

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

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Oregon in 2003 Every state in 2003 This day in weather history Warnings in Oregon, August 2003

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: 5336412.