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Tuesday night storms bring lightning, thunder, rain, and hail

KLCC | By Brian Bull
Published August 10, 2022 at 11:12 PM PDT
Hail that fell across the Friendly neighborhood in Eugene Tuesday night measured as large "as 3/4+ inches in diameter!" wrote Cypress Kappeyne van de Coppello, who sent in this image to KLCC that same evening.
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Hail that fell across the Friendly neighborhood in Eugene Tuesday night measured as large "as 3/4+ inches in diameter!" wrote Cypress Kappeyne van de Coppello, who sent in this image to KLCC that same evening.

Tuesday night brought powerful winds, thunder, and rain turning to hail in some parts of our listening area.

Around 9:00pm last night, Eugene-Springfield saw a series of brief but powerful storms. Medium to large hail fell in the South Hills and other parts of town, with a flood advisory issued for the north-central section of Lane County.

A red flag warning was in effect in the Eugene area until 6am this morning.

The heaviest rainfall came down east of Eugene and Albany, in the Willamette National Forest, and just west of Bend in the Deschutes National Forest.

Residents in those areas that have seen wildfire activity in the past few years are advised to be careful, as the rains could cause erosion, flooding, or mudslides.

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Brian Bull
Brian Bull is a contributing freelance reporter with the KLCC News department, who first began working with the station in 2016. He's a senior reporter with the Native American media organization Buffalo's Fire, and was recently a journalism professor at the University of Oregon.

In his nearly 30 years working as a public media journalist, Bull has worked at NPR, Twin Cities Public Television, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wisconsin Public Radio, and ideastream in Cleveland. His reporting has netted dozens of accolades, including four national Edward R. Murrow Awards (22 regional),  the Ohio Associated Press' Best Reporter Award, Best Radio Reporter from  the Native American Journalists Association, and the PRNDI/NEFE Award for Excellence in Consumer Finance Reporting.
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