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Funnel Cloud in Douglas County, Washington
Funnel Cloud June 26, 2019 · Douglas County, Washington
Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.
What the National Weather Service wrote
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.
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 Palisades (47.4634, -120.0272).
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 833853. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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