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20,000 Lightning Strikes Hit Pacific Northwest On Thursday

A major storm system slammed the Pacific Northwest on Thursday, bringing severe thunderstorms and over 20,000 lightning strikes across the region.

The weather space,

6 September, 2013

In what is the areas largest regional severe weather event in many years, The Pacific Northwest storm complex of September 5, 2013 will go down as one of the most intense lightning displays the region has seen. Residents claim the storms were more like that of the Midwest than that of the Pacific Northwest.

This system was predicted here at TheWeatherSpace.com several days in advance, giving residence both doubt and questioning the forecast given. Many were laughing that it should wouldn’t be as intense, but laughter turned to awe as the skies opened up on the region.

During the morning, TheWeatherSpace.com issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for a large area of the forecast region. This watch covered populated areas of Oregon and Washington. The mention of the strongest storms in Northeastern Oregon and Southeastern Washington was also in there, saying tornadic storms would be possible. Later on, parts of the area were upgraded with a TWS Tornado Watch product. This watch included Northeastern Oregon into Eastern Washington.

Supercells during the evening and early night hours became tornadic, with one of them prompting a tornado warning in Northeast Oregon. Other storms through the early night hours in Southwestern Washington showed signs of rotation. While tornadoes were not warned for, one could easily have formed and dropped in the rural areas before hitting the cities … but we may never know.

As the storm’s upper level divergence profiles set in over Western Washington over the night on Thursday, the thunderstorm frequency increased across the Seattle forecast areas for several hours before diminishing to showers. Flooding was reported and over 2.5″ of rain fell across Seattle overnight

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