Stormy weather made an encore performance Saturday, with less lightning but more rain in a path from Yale Lake through Vancouver.
The storm developed in the foothills of the Cascade Range north of Clark County early Saturday evening and moved southwest across Yale Lake, Amboy, Battle Ground and Hockinson before moving into the Vancouver area at about 7:25 p.m.
By the time the storm moved through into Oregon, it had dropped 0.83 of an inch of rain at Pearson Field in Vancouver and 1.4 inches at a weather-spotter’s home in Vancouver Heights, said Colby Neuman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Portland. He said the spotter also reported dime- to penny-sized hail.
“The worst was over Vancouver and the Portland airport,” Neuman said.
The weather service detected about 10 sky-to-ground lightning strikes in Saturday’s storm in the Portland-Vancouver metro area, far fewer than on Friday, which saw “several dozen” ground strikes, Neuman said. Friday’s storm had brought about 0.26 of an inch of rain at Pearson Field.
