Flash Flood in Chelan County, Washington

Flash Flood June 26, 2019 · Chelan County, Washington

$1K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A spotter reported manhole covers being blown off of storm drain access holes from surging water in downtown Wenatchee.

The wider storm

During the afternoon of June 27th a complex of slow moving thunderstorms developed over the western Columbia Basin and the eastern slopes of the Cascades in a moist and unstable air mass near the center of an upper level low pressure. Several reports of flash flooding were received from the Wenatchee area where the COOP observer at the Wenatchee Water Plant reported 0.97 inch of rain from one of these storms.

A brief funnel cloud was photographed appending from another storm over the Waterville Plateau.

Began near Olds (47.4528, -120.3518).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 833847. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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