Storm whips up hefty hail, gale-force winds.Byline: Jim Feehan The Register-Guard A storm system roared through Oregon on Sunday, bringing with it golf ball-sized hail, heavy rain, gale-force winds and scattered power outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
In Central Oregon Central Oregon is a geographical region lying near the center of the U.S. state of Oregon. It is commonly considered to include Deschutes, Jefferson, and Crook counties. Primary cities in Central Oregon are La Pine, Sunriver, Bend, Redmond, Madras, and Prineville. , golf ball-sized hail was reported in Redmond, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Dan Keirns, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Portland. Smaller hail was reported in Lane County. The storm whipped through the Willamette Pass Willamette Pass (el. 5128 ft.) is a mountain pass in the Cascade Mountains in the U.S. state of Oregon. The pass is traversed by Oregon Route 58. Willamette Pass ski area is located there. area into the central Willamette Valley The Willamette Valley (pronounced [wɪˈlæ.mɪt], with the accent on the second syllable) is the region in northwest Oregon in the United States that surrounds the Willamette River as it proceeds northward from its in late afternoon, knocking down a tree and forcing closure of Highway 126 in east Springfield. It also caused a brief power outage Noun 1. power outage - equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails; "the ice storm caused a power outage" power failure equipment failure, breakdown - a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown" near Walterville and a longer one in Thurston. The weather service issued a severe thunderstorm warning The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. as the weather system - packing winds of up to 70 miles per hour - swept through Deschutes County and up the McKenzie River For rivers name "Mackenzie", see . The McKenzie River is a tributary of the Willamette River, 86 miles (138 km) long, in northwestern Oregon in the United States. It drains part of the Cascade Range east of Eugene into the southernmost end of the Willamette Valley. Valley toward Eugene-Springfield, then Corvallis, Salem and Estacada, Keirns said. "We had three-quarters of an inch of rain recorded in Springfield during a 25-minute period beginning at 5:45," he said. The Eugene Airport received a comparable amount of rain between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., Keirns said. And a local weather spotter for the weather service reported 1.05 inches of rain between 6:15 p.m. and 7 p.m. in west Eugene. Hail also was reported in the Eugene-Springfield area that was "pea-sized to marble-sized," Keirns said. At 6:10 p.m., high winds toppled a tree, which fell across Highway 126 near 78th Street in east Springfield, closing the road. Traffic was routed to Thurston Road around the downed tree, Springfield police Sgt. John King said. Police said that they expected the highway to be re-opened after midnight. The tree also snapped a Springfield Utility Board feeder line affecting 40 customers in the Thurston area, said Springfield Utility Board spokeswoman Meredith Clark. Power was still off to those customers at 9:30 p.m. At the same time that the tree was toppled, lightning struck a major transmission line about five miles east of there at the Eugene Water & Electric Board's Walterville substation, EWEB EWEB Eugene Water and Electric Board (Oregon) spokesman Lance Robertson said. Power was out for between five to eight minutes for 400 to 500 customers in Walterville and about 100 customers in the Cedar Flats area, Robertson said. Dave D'Avanzo, a spokesman for Lane Electric Cooperative, which serves about 12,000 customers in the Upper McKenzie River Valley, reported no outages. Representatives from Blachly-Lane-Electric Cooperative and Emerald People's Utility Board were not available for comment Sunday night. At one point in the evening, the weather service said that radar indicated some weak rotation within the storm and that, while not immediately likely, a tornado might still develop. None was reported. CAPTION(S): An electrical tower on Greenhill Road stands against a stormy sky. Sunday's storm cut power in several areas. |
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