Severe Thunderstorm in Portland (June 4, 2009)

Tornado warnings, Severe thunderstorm warnings, watches of all sorts, that was one wild afternoon. After several days of watching the storms explode in the distance, we finally got ours beginning around 4pm. There were several unconfirmed reports of tornadoes on the ground in multiple counties, reports of 1 inch sized hail, rainfall amounts of more than 3 inches per hour, winds in excess of 80 mph in some places, and much, much more! This video shows my experience. Unfortunately, my video doesn't accurately portray the awesomeness that was this storm...

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• Milwaukie
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[GayTexasBoy]

most people in portland oregon see more than one or two thunderstorms a year - and they are very light ones.

[W7ENK]

@GayTexasBoy One or two a year, if we're lucky!

[sassynum12]

dude its a freakin storm u are actin like u aint never seen 1 b4

[W7ENK]

@sassynum12: Well, that's because in Western Oregon, storms of this size are extremely rare - on the order of one maybe every 20 years or so. We don't normally get supercells with reports of tornadoes and severe winds, so yeah, I really hadn't seen one like that, at least not in a long while! :)

[supercell1995]

Erik, just had to watch this again.... I had no clue this area was even capable of such activity.... LOL :) Keep up the videos and stay safe!

remember my pictures?

[W7ENK]

Yeah, you got to see so much more structure than I did! It sure was a great storm... definitely one for the history books!

[tayl7376]

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[Andylong99]

i was out in it i was with my Dad and my mom at fred meyers that afternoon and it started raining like cats and dogs then hail started 45 minutes after that thunder and Lightning started booming around us after that the sky turned dark creepy eerie evil green

[xx3joyfull3xx]

Yes, This Thunderstorm/Tornado Warnining Was SO Scary, Because Im Only 12 And Lived In Beaverton Oregon My Whole Life, And I Was Freaking Out, It Was Insane, I Didnt See Any Tornado Though? But, It Was Very Scary, I Never Seen Anything Like It, So Everyone Who Said He Was "Freaking Out" You Would Too If You Lived In Oregon, Theres Not Much Storms Like This. It Was Insanly Scary.

[supercell1995]

@GayTexasBoy

This one was comparable to some midwestern storms, although this video didn't show what the storm did in other parts of western oregon, as the description says. I'd say this is maybe a 20-30 year thunderstorm for our location.

[dustinde]

This is so funny to me because I am from Kansas and was in Hillsboro for a friends wedding. All of us Kansas folks were wondering what the big fuss was all about. We see this kind of activity on a regular/sometimes daily basis here, so we weren't taking it all that serious. Figured out what the big deal was when our friends got off of work and said that this kind of a storm is a rarity in NW Oregon.

[Andylong99]

From portland to gresham its a half hour drive if taking the max its longer