Funnel Cloud — Douglas, Washington

2019-06-26 · near Palisades, Douglas, Washington

Event narrative

KING news reported on a funnel cloud photographed by a member of the public near Waterville. The photo showed a clearly defined funnel appending from the base of a nearby thunderstorm.

Wider weather episode

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.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 833853. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.