Happy Saturday Everyone! I've been house sitting since Wednesday and have now just realized that I didn't bring my toothbrush with me. I've been home each day in the morning to swap out laundry and haven't gotten the toothbrush packed. It is now. Earlier today, storms started to fire in this NE wrap around flow. This is one of the patterns that we like to see, if you want thunderstorms in the valley.
Hey Portland peeps let’s get it goin. Thunderstorms this afternoon thunderstorms ⛈— Bobby Corser (@BobbyCorser) June 16, 2018
Storms skirted the east side of the metro area most of the afternoon. On the golf front, Phil Mickelson has set the golf world on-fire with his 8 stroke and 2 shot penalty for hitting a ball that hadn't stopped moving on the green. Phil took the penalty and continued his round.
Live look at the amount of F’s Phil Mickelson gives at the moment. pic.twitter.com/qVMyi3TBez— TJ Eckert (@TJEckertKTUL) June 16, 2018
Day 412...
Happy Sunday! Today was awesome weatherwise. By mid afternoon temperatures had come to ninety degrees when the atmosphere triggered strong thunderstorms and they were headed toward Portland. Check out the GOES-16 minute by minute visible satellite picture. You can see the storms fire over northern Clark County and move into the Willamette Valley.
Here is what it looked like initially on radar.
Wondering about the wind tis afternoon? Known as outflow wind or a gust front. It's source is rain cooled air spreading out ahead of the storms. Seen as a thin blue line from Battle Ground to PDX then expanding west to McMinnville, Forest Grove by the end of loop. pic.twitter.com/GQwqW8jVgO— NWS Portland (@NWSPortland) June 18, 2018
In the previous tweet, the NWS Mentions the gust front. You can see it clearly making its way from the cells initial location around Vancouver and rapidly rushes out to the west and south.
Check this out. Gust front extends over 60 miles @JimCantore @RobMarciano @mikebettes #wutv @weatherchannel pic.twitter.com/3STsHh81CL— Bobby Corser (@BobbyCorser) June 18, 2018
Here is what it looked like here when the gust front moved through Tualatin.
It’s not hail, it’s pine cones falling off these trees. Winds picked up dramatically here in Tualatin. @NWSPortland #gustfront pic.twitter.com/hOI5tzN4oL— Bobby Corser (@BobbyCorser) June 18, 2018
The gust front would eventually make its way all the way to the coast range below finally dying off. The south, the gust front fired up a nice line of storms. This is pretty common in the Midwest.
Following the fun with the wind, we waited for the storms to arrive. Once they did, it went from pretty calm to downright crazy in a matter of moments. I was sitting outside with my twin sister and brother in law when branches started coming off the trees. I called in a spotter report with wind estimates and to report branches down with thunder and lightning.
After the cell moved past, we all went out to the golf course behind the house to take a look at the damage. Medium and small sized branches littered the fairways and then I saw this.
The branch was easily 20 feet long and quite heavy. It had come down some 100 feet from the base of the tree you see at the top of the photo. It was easily the best storm we've had in the area in some time. I saw reports from friends in Tualatin that a tree from their neighbors fall into the yard. The fire scanner tonight was really busy with brush fires and multiple reports of wires being down. It's great to have an active day everyone once in a while.
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