Storm photos: Lightning, hail, tornado?
EUGENE, Ore. -- When a storm hits Western Oregon, all hands on deck: YouNews reporters went to work gathering footage of the storm to post to KVAL.com.
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Photogirl posted this photo of lightning in Albany to YouNews.
Shelley Saraceno e-mailed in this photograph of the storm 30 miles north of Eugene.
Hail hit the Dallas area, east of Salem, according to YouNews reporter jefff.
Eric-Tech in Salem got video of the downpour there.
Lightning in Corvallis burned a family's home.
In Salem, firefighters battled a lightning fire in a vacant house. The house owner, Mr. Joseph Abood, had been in the process of moving out of the house, when he took a break to talk with his neighbor and observe the thunder and lighting storm moving through the area. Mr. Abood said they heard and felt a large boom near his house. He then went back into the house to watch the storm when he notices a smell of smoke. Mr. Abood then went back outside a saw smoke coming from the roof. Mr. Abood called 9-1-1 to report the fire.
A YouNews reporter in Peoria, Ore., posted photographs of possible tornado activity. The National Weather Service reviewed the photos at the request of KVAL News and said the high winds probably fell short of an official tornado.
The damage was evident, either way.
The Weather Service has not yet confirmed whether or not a tornado formed and touched down anywhere in Oregon.
YouNews reporter brittany01 submitted photographs of the heavy rain and street flooding in Cottage Grove.
YouNews reporter Yurii e-mailed photographs directly to the KVAL Weather team.
"They show the 'wall cloud' and possible tornado formation," Yurii wrote, "and one of the pics shows how hard the rain/hail was because you can see the 'line' of mist being kicked up in a field as the wall of water approached. That is no exaggeration: as the rain and hail hit, vision was reduced to only about 100 feet in front of my van, and even then the rain was going so hard that everything seemed blurry, and I ended up having to pull off the freeway quickly to avoid being hit. (A lot of passing motorists were charging into the rain and hail, THEN they were suddenly all hitting their brakes!)
