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Tornado in Umatilla County, Oregon

Tornado June 11, 2022 · Umatilla County, Oregon

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Not rated

0.0 mi

Path length

15 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 15 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The Pendleton Airport air traffic controller relayed a report from a pilot travelling south of the airfield that debris and dust was being picked up by a small tornado. A funnel cloud was observed by NWS personnel and by the public shortly before the relayed report.

The wider storm

An atmospheric river pointed at the Pacific Northwest provided plentiful moisture east of the Cascades for scattered to isolated showers to develop across the region. Though instability in the area was weak, an isolated shower about 6 miles southwest of KPDT was able to produce a well defined funnel cloud that preceded a weak small tornado.

Began near Barnhart (45.6100, -118.9100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1043094. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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