Widespread showers and isolated thunderstorms impacted the region after a frontal passage with cold air advecting overhead encouraging instability. Enough shear was present to facilitate a waterspout.
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Widespread showers and isolated thunderstorms impacted the region after a frontal passage with cold air advecting overhead encouraging instability. Enough shear was present to facilitate a waterspout.
The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 46 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:30 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A short-lived waterspout over the Columbia River near the Lewis and Clark bridge at Longview occurred with multiple photos taken from the Lewis and Clark Bridge to the west. Indicated on radar and media reported.
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