Live National Weather Service alerts, NEXRAD weather radar, USGS river and stream gauges, Storm Prediction Center convective outlooks, Local Storm Reports, 5-day forecast, air quality, and severe-weather notifications for Columbia County, OR (FIPS 41009) in Oregon. Free, no login, no ads.
Columbia County, OR is one of the counties of Oregon covered by BloomWX. Columbia County, OR has a population of approximately 52,865 (2022 estimate, US Census Bureau). The county covers 658.7 square miles of land area. The county seat is Saint Helens.
Saint Helens, Scappoose, Vernonia, Columbia City, Rainier.
Columbia County, OR is served by the National Weather Service PQR forecast office for warnings, watches, advisories, and decision-support services. The same office produces the Hazardous Weather Outlook, Area Forecast Discussion, and DSS briefing packets you'll see on the BloomWX dashboard for this county.
BloomWX also covers the surrounding counties: Multnomah County, OR, Washington County, OR, Clark County, WA, Cowlitz County, WA, Wahkiakum County, WA, Clatsop County, OR, Tillamook County, OR.
BloomWX is a free weather operations dashboard for SKYWARN storm spotters, emergency management volunteers, ham radio nets, and anyone in Columbia County, OR who needs the official NWS data without the consumer-app cruft. Data is pulled directly from weather.gov and refreshes every 60 seconds. Sources: National Weather Service, Storm Prediction Center, USGS Water Data, NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center, Open-Meteo (Air Quality), and the Citizen Weather Observer Program.
Read the BloomWX learn library for beginner-friendly explainers on every dashboard surface, including SPC convective outlooks (TSTM/MRGL/SLGT/ENH/MDT/HIGH), NEXRAD radar, USGS flood gauges, and WPC surface analysis charts. See all Oregon county weather dashboards on BloomWX.