Overview
- The National Weather Service issued the alert at 9:58 a.m. Wednesday and set its duration through 7 p.m.
- The advisory spans coastal areas, the Portland metro and foothills, the Willamette Valley, the Coast Range, and the Lower Columbia River region.
- Stronger storms could produce locally damaging wind gusts up to 60 mph with a chance of funnel clouds or brief tornadoes.
- Safety guidance urges moving to an interior room on the lowest floor, protecting your head, avoiding overpasses, and using a ditch or culvert if caught outside.
- A separate severe thunderstorm warning at 12:47 p.m. targeted Clatsop and Tillamook counties until 1:30 p.m., citing a storm near Garibaldi with potential 70 mph gusts and rapid northeast motion.
- Advance Local Weather Alerts, a United Robots service, republished the NWS notice using machine-compiled data.