Tornado in Washington, January 28, 2006

Name: Tornado in Washington, January 28, 2006
Start: 2006-01-28T14:30
End: 2006-01-28T14:32
Location: Washington

January 28, 2006 · NWS SEW · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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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 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 Seattle, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 28, 9:15 AM PST, 5 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 28, 9:15 AM PST, 5 hours 15 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
915 AM PST SAT JAN 28 2006

.SYNOPSIS...A TROUGH WILL MOVE THROUGH WESTERN WASHINGTON TODAY. A
STRONG FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL REACH THE AREA SUNDAY. UNSETTLED WEATHER
WILL PERSIST INTO NEXT WEEK.
&&

.SHORT TERM...COLD TROF WITH SHOWERS AND TOWERING CU MOVG THRU WRN
WA TDY. A FEW LIGHTNING STRIKES AROUND THE NORTH COAST. H500 TEMPS
AROUND -33C TODAY. GOOD OROGRAPHIC SNOW SHOWERS OVER THE CASCADES
AND THE TOTAL 24HR SNOW ACCUMULATION MAY REACH 2 FEET IN A FEW
SPOTS...MOST PLACES A LITTLE OVER A FOOT. THE HEAVY SNOW WARNING CAN
STAY UP TIL THE SNOW SHOWERS TAPERS OFF THIS EVENING...AND PSCZ
ENHANCED SNOWFALL MAY KEEP LOCALLY HEAVY SNOW SHOWERS GOING TIL
MIDNITE. GALE WESTERLIES IN THE STRAIT HAVE DROPPED OFF...BUT SHOULD
PICK UP AGAIN BEHIND THE TROF AND HELP TO TOUCH THAT PSCZ MIDDAY.
COULD NOT ACCESS ACARS DATA THIS MORNING BUT THE FZLVL WAS 2800FT
THIS MORNING AT KUIL AND SHOULD DROP TO 2000 BY EVENING WITH A FEW
ICE PELLET SHOWERS ALREADY REPORTED.

THE NEXT SYSTEM TIMED FOR SUNDAY AFTERNOON LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER DECENT
SELY GALE IMMEDIATELY AHEAD OF THE FRONT. THE MM5 TODAY IS MORE
PROGRESSIVE AND THE PRECIP AMOUNTS ARE NOTHING TO GET WORKED UP
ABOUT NOW. OUR QPS IS PROBABLY OKAY FOR THE OLYMPICS AND WE MAY HAVE
A BETTER QPS THAN THE MODEL...WE ARE GOING FOR 3 IN 24HRS OLYMPICS.
BUT CLEARLY MOST OF THE HEAVY RAIN AND WARMTH WILL BE DIRECTED INTO
OREGON...THE MM5GFS HAS THE OCFNT FROPA THRU PUGET SOUND SUNDAY
EVENING...AND DRAGGING THRU WRN OREGON SLOWLY OVERNIGHT SUN NITE.
THE DEEP PARENT LOW FILLS AS IT MOVES NE BETWEEN VRILS AND THE
CHARLOTTES SUN NITE. I SHOULD ONLY HAVE TO BRUSH UP THE QPS GRIDS A
BIT AND I WILL CERTAINLY NOT ADD ANY MORE PCPN TO THEM. IN
SHORT...NOT TO WORRIED ABOUT HYDRO ISSUES FOR MONDAY NOW...ALTHOUGH
STILL A CHANCE FOR THE SKOKOMISH TO RISE TOWARD FLOOD STAGE. MM

.LONG TERM...NO UPDTS PREV DISC: CONFIDENCE DURING THIS PERIOD WAS
LOW DUE TO THE HIGH DEGREE OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE EVOLUTION OF THE
LONG WAVE PATTERN OVER THE NOAM. OVERALL...IT APPEARED THAT THE
PATTERN WILL REMAIN UNSETTLED THRU DAY 7. THUS NO MAJOR CHANGES TO
THE PREVIOUS FORECAST.

&&

.AVIATION...FRONT WELL TO THE EAST WITH COOL UNSTABLE AMS SETTLING
IN OVER WESTERN WASHINGTON FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS. CONDITIONS WILL
BE QUITE VARIABLE WITH CEILINGS 1200-2000 FEET WITH SHOWERS. OUTSIDE
THE SHOWER ACTIVITY CEILINGS GENERALLY LOW VFR...3500 FEET OR SO.
ISOLATED VISIBILITIES NEAR 3 MILES IN THE HEAVIER SHOWERS. AMS
BEGINNING TO STABILIZE AFT 02Z TONIGHT WITH SHOWER ACTIVITY
DECREASING RAPIDLY. PSCZ POSSIBLE LATER THIS AFTERNOON BUT WITH THE
GOOD SOUTHERLY GRADIENTS AND THE SANDPOINT PROFILER SHOWING SW 35
KNOTS RIGHT OFF THE GROUND EXPECT THE CONVERGENCE TO STAY NORTH NEAR
THE EAST ENTRANCE TO THE STRAIT AND THEN GET PUSHED INTO THE
CASCADES. SOUTHWEST WINDS AT KSEA 10-15 KNOTS DIMINISHING LATE THIS
AFTERNOON. FELTON
&&

.SEW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
1. HEAVY SNOW WARNING CASCADES THRU THIS EVENING.
2. SNOW ADVISORY OLYMPICS THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON.
3. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY ALL WATERS.
4. SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY GRAYS HARBOR BAR FOR ROUGH BAR CONDITIONS.

WEATHER.GOV/SEATTLE

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 28, 1:37 PM PST, 53 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
137 PM PST SAT JAN 28 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0134 PM     HEAVY RAIN       6 NNW POTLATCH          47.44N 123.21W
01/28/2006  1.77 INCH        MASON              WA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            24 HOUR PRECIPITATION 1.77 INCHES ENDING AT 11 AM. 4
            INCHES OF SNOW ON THE GROUND.

&&

DF

Local storm report, Jan 28, 2:27 PM PST, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SEATTLE WA
227 PM PST SAT JAN 28 2006

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0225 PM     FUNNEL CLOUD     3 SSE LACEY             47.00N 122.79W
01/28/2006                   THURSTON           WA   TRAINED SPOTTER

            1/4 INCH ICE PELLETS. WIND CALM. FUNNEL CLOUD DISSIPATED
            AFTER SEVERAL MINUTES.

&&

JH

The radar

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Thurston

When: January 28, 2:30 PM PST to 2:32 PM PST
Where: Thurston County, 5 mi SE of Lacey
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.5 mi
Path width: 90 yd
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 46.983, -122.733

On the ground for less than 2 minutes.

What these are

Tornado: A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Washington in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Washington, 2006 Warnings in Washington, January 2006

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: 5486705.