Rare severe storms forecast for Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest is seeing the possibility for rare strong to severe storms to pop-up as we head towards the evening hours.

The time displayed on the ABC 17 Stormtrack Futuretrack is set in the Central Time Zone. These potential strong to severe storms are spurred by warmer than average temperatures for this time of the year on the backside of a warm front, this makes for the perfect ingredients with plenty of moisture to play with. After six Wednesday afternoon, the northwest will start to see showers and storms pop-up. Even some supercells going to be possible, which is not typically seen up towards the northwest.

This will continue to stay possibly at strong to severe levels into the overnight hours where eventually it'll start to lose its steam as a cold front continues to pull back in from the west and things will start to die out as we head off into the early morning hours.

Now with this system, they're a threat level 2/5, which is actually the strongest they've seen in the last decade from the Storm Prediction Center for Portland, Oregon.

When looking a little bit further for the hail risk, damage could be significant. This region could see up to egg size hail associated with this system.

This is the first 5% tornado risk Portland, Oregon has seen ever issued by the Storm Prediction Center for Portland, Oregon. Meteorologist in this region will be watching very closely for some stronger tornadoes to possibly pop-up with the system. This is also the furthest northwest in the lower 48 states that they've seen such a high risk for the potential for tornadoes to hit that region. Thankfully this will all die out into the early morning hours.