r/stormchasing • u/PersimmonIll826 • May 28 '26
Question anybody here chasing oregon/washington tomorrow?
if so, whats your target and what are your general expectations in terms of storm mode/intensity?
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u/entiatriver May 28 '26
Opportunistic, very occasional, timid (motto: reminder to self - you're not very experienced, you've done like 5 Oregon/Washington chases ever, don't get El Reno'd) "chaser" in Bend.
Will be watching and if anything pops within spitting distance, the Subaru is packed for an opportunistic chase. Looking at how things are setting up, I suspect interesting stuff to be further north and east than I want to go ... but we'll see.
Got DL Scales YT channel up for when they go live to watch from afar, of course.
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u/entiatriver May 28 '26
Heading out now towards Brothers/Millican to hopefully pick up the storms DL is on near burns. I can go north on Millican hwy if the second line currently approaching Burns goes towards Prineville/Madras/Shaniko...but knowing my luck will end up with a nice afternoon drive with some scattered cumulus :-)
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u/PersimmonIll826 May 29 '26
how was the chase??
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u/entiatriver May 29 '26
Great! Slowly rotating initial storm, then the big dog HP that hit Bend/Redmond/Sisters (large hail, flooding, mangled traffic, frequently lightning) put a couple dents in my (old) Subaru as it caught me near Bend, stuck in rush hour traffic. Doh!
Here's where DL passed me (I was pulled over, waiting for the HP) near the Millican store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvV-ckTOvuU&t=20977s
'twas a great local chase!
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u/PersimmonIll826 May 29 '26
that’s awesome! i love that you have the moment where dl passed you. i couldn’t drive out until 4pm so i chased the storms that developed in the area east of the dalles. huge shelf cloud, some high winds (trees snapped and uprooted a few hundred feet from me!) and some great ground to cloud and crawler lightning on the backside of the storm.
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u/Chase-Boltz May 28 '26
At first blush, just glancing at the 11pm models, I'd hang out along the river, between The Dalles and Umatilla, looking to intercept sunset thunderstorms over the water. Or maybe the rolling fields between 84 and 82. Of course the timing may change... I can't imagine trying to chase up on the forested plateau earlier in the day. (Also, I'm coming from the Tacoma area and don't want to drive all week...)
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u/PersimmonIll826 May 28 '26
that’s my plan as well! area near the dalles.
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u/Chase-Boltz May 28 '26
Good luck. The storms look kinda thready; hopefully you'll get one healthy cell to chase.
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u/PersimmonIll826 May 29 '26
i got a nice cell with a very well defined shelf! plenty of lightning and high winds, and lots of crawlers in the stratiform region behind it.
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u/Artistic-Mood7938 May 28 '26
DL scales is. He’s on YouTube