Lightning — Crook, Oregon

2016-05-14 · near Goering Airstrip, Crook, Oregon

Event narrative

Lightning started a house fire. Approx damage to house when fire was put out was around 100,000 dollars.

Wider weather episode

Negative tilt trough moved through the pacific northwest the afternoon of May 14th. Most thunderstorms produced heavy rain by evening, but some storms were producing Nickel to quarter sized hail. Hail reports in inches are as followed: 1.00 in the city of Dale, 0.88 1 mile NNE of Powell Butte, and 0.88 7 miles SW of Sunriver.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 630424. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.