Rains, wind kick off stormy few days in the Northwest

The Cascade Mountains and coast could see 2 to 5 inches, and the Olympic Mountains could be inundated with 4 to 8 inches. That storm left many people without power for days.

The Seattle Fire Department posted Friday on Twitter that the child suffered serious injuries and the father minor injuries.

Because of the predicted wind and rain, CHI Franciscan Health canceled Saturday’s street fair to commemorate the 125th anniversary of St. Joseph Medical Center. He says other homes have roof damage.

The storm will not only lash the Pacific Northwest with damaging winds but will also unload torrential rains. At one point Friday 15,000 customers were without power in Seattle.

An unusually strong jet stream is the root cause of this massive storm pumping in large amounts of moisture out of the central Pacific. A tornado was reported in Manzanita, Oregon, along the coast.

“Today’s storm will be a more typical winter storm in terms of strength”, the federal agencies said. “Suddenly the whole sky was filled with debris”. Harmon says “it was just insane and then it just stopped”. Some of the storms have even produced a rare tornado touchdown in Oregon.

OR only averages two tornado touchdowns a year, and it has nearly been two years since the OR office of the National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning, meteorologist said.

The winds, combined with low relative humidity, triggered red-flag warnings Thursday afternoon stretching from Mineral and southern Lyon County southeast of Reno to as far south as the Las Vegas area and southwest Lincoln County.

But Clinton Rockey with the National Weather Service based in Portland said flooding may prove to be the smaller problem.

More information will be available tomorrow and as we approach Saturday. No severe weather is anticipated at this time.

Breezy conditions will continue Friday, with another, stronger wind and rain storm predicted for Saturday.

By 9 p.m., the worst should be over.

Portland had the rainiest October 13 in its history. Report all power outages to Puget Sound Energy. So if he’s having a hard time breaking down exactly what’s coming our way this weekend, then you really know you need to pay attention.

According to Hennen, a third storm may pass through the Pacific Northwest next week. Puget Sound could expect wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour even if the storm heads up coast.