20,000 Lightning Strikes Hit Pacific Northwest On Thursday [1]

Theweatherspace.com - 9/6/13

 

In what is the areas largest regional severe weather event in many years, The Pacific Northwest storm complex of September 5, 2013 will go down as one of the most intense lightning displays the region has seen.  Residents claim the storms were more like that of the Midwest than that of the Pacific Northwest

Supercells during the evening and early night hours  became tornadic, with one of them prompting a tornado warning in Northeast Oregon.  Other storms through the early night hours in Southwestern Washington showed signs of rotation.  While tornadoes were not warned for, one could easily have formed and dropped in the rural areas before hitting the cities … but we may never know.

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