A northwest wind gusted to 58 MPH at Rufus, 22 miles east of The Dalles.
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A northwest wind gusted to 58 MPH at Rufus, 22 miles east of The Dalles.
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 Oct 8, 1:30 PM PST, 4 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OREGON 230 PM PDT FRI OCT 8 2004 .SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT. AS STATED IN PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...A DEEP AND MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW IS BRINGING WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION FROM THE CASCADES WESTWARD. WITH THE FLOW PARALLEL TO THE CASCADES...MOISTURE WILL BE SLOW TO SPREAD EASTWARD. INCREASING HEIGHTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE SOUTHERLY FLOW HAS RESULTED IN TEMPERATURES THIS AFTERNOON ABOUT 5-10 DEGREES WARMER COMPARED TO YESTERDAY. A SURFACE LOW OVER EASTERN OREGON WILL STRENGTHEN OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS...DEVELOPING A WEAK OCCLUDED FRONT OVER NE OREGON AROUND 03Z (8 PM PDT). THE COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE IS EXPECTED BETWEEN 8 PM-MIDNIGHT WITH INCREASING WINDS AND NUMEROUS SHOWERS OVER MOST OF THE FORECAST AREA. THE HEAVIEST RAINFALL WILL BE OVER THE BLUE MOUNTAINS AND THE BLUE MOUNTAIN FOOTHILLS WHERE THE LOW LEVEL UPSLOPE IS STRONGEST. THE COLD FRONT WILL EXIT THE REGION EARLY SATURDAY MORNING...YET THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL REMAIN OVER THE REGION. COOL AND SHOWERY WEATHER IS FORECAST FOR SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS IN THE HIGHER PEAKS WILL BE AROUND 1-3 INCHES TONIGHT AND SATURDAY AS SNOW LEVELS LOWER TO 6000 FEET. HIGH PRESSURE WILL RETURN SUNDAY FOR DRY CONDITIONS. SOME MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS WILL PREVENT SIGNIFICANT RADIATIONAL COOLING SUNDAY NIGHT...BUT IT WILL STILL BE QUITE CHILLY WITH LOWS IN THE LOWER 20S TO LOWER OVER THE MOUNTAINS AND LOWER 30S TO LOWER 40S ELSEWHERE. SMITH .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS IN AGREEMENT DIGGING THE TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE ACROSS THE DESERT SOUTHWEST...WITH RIDGING BUILDING ACROSS THE EASTERN PACIFIC EARLY IN THE WEEK...MIGRATING OVER THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BY MIDWEEK. DRY WEATHER WILL BE THE RULE...WITH DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WARMING TO NEAR NORMAL BY MIDWEEK. WITH DRIER AIR OVERHEAD...WILL SEE GOOD RADIATIONAL COOLING AT NIGHT...TUE MORNING ESPECIALLY...WITH MOST LOCATIONS ACROSS CENTRAL OREGON AND THE HIGHER PLATEAUS OF EASTERN OREGON NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW FREEZING. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... PENDLETON (AIRPORT) 049 061 044 062 / 070 040 020 005 WALLA WALLA 049 061 044 061 / 060 040 020 005 TRI-CITIES 045 065 036 065 / 040 030 020 005 YAKIMA 040 063 034 063 / 060 030 010 005 HERMISTON 047 065 040 064 / 040 030 020 005 ELLENSBURG 042 061 039 061 / 060 030 010 005 REDMOND 037 058 031 059 / 070 030 020 005 LA GRANDE 043 057 038 057 / 070 060 020 010 JOHN DAY 042 058 038 059 / 060 050 020 010 THE DALLES 050 066 043 066 / 070 040 010 005 && .PDT WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OR...NONE. WA...NONE. && 85
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PENDLETON OREGON 500 AM PDT FRI OCT 8 2004 ORZ041>050-WAZ024>030-091200- NORTH CENTRAL OREGON-CENTRAL OREGON-LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN (OR)- FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS (OR)-BLUE MOUNTAINS-JOHN DAY BASIN- OCHOCO-JOHN DAY HIGHLANDS-GRANDE RONDE VALLEY-WALLOWA COUNTY- EASTERN COLUMBIA RIVER GORGE (WA)- EAST SLOPES OF THE SOUTHERN CASCADES-KITTITAS VALLEY-YAKIMA VALLEY- LOWER COLUMBIA BASIN (WA)-FOOTHILLS OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS (WA)- NORTHWEST BLUE MOUNTAINS- 500 AM PDT FRI OCT 8 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST OREGON AS WELL AS SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. A COLD FRONT WILL COME ASHORE BY LATE MORNING AND WORK ITS WAY ACROSS THE AREA THROUGHOUT THE DAY. THE FRONT WILL MOVE OVER THE COLUMBIA BASIN AND AREAS EASTWARD DURING THE LATE AFTERNOON AND OVERNIGHT HOURS. WINDS WILL GENERATE POCKETS OF BLOWING DUST AHEAD OF THE FRONT...BUT PRECIPITATION AND CLOUD COVER WILL LIMIT THE AMOUNT OF DUST. SNOW LEVELS WILL DROP DOWN TO NEAR 6000 FEET BY LATE IN THE EVENING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. UNSETTLED AND SHOWERY WEATHER WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA BEHIND THE FRONT SATURDAY AND EARLY SUNDAY. A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVERHEAD LATE SUNDAY THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE PERIOD FOR MILD AND DRY CONDITIONS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. PROTOTYPE GRAPHICAL FORECASTS OF WEATHER HAZARDS OUT TO SEVEN DAYS ARE DISPLAYED ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB AT: WWW.WRH.NOAA.GOV/PENDLETON/FORECAST/HWOGRAPHICS/HWOGRAPHICS.PHP ALL LETTERS IN THE ABOVE URL ARE LOWER CASE...EXCEPT THE G IN HWOGRAPHICS AND THE G IN HWOGRAPHICS.PHP.
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