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EF0 tornado in Lincoln County, Oregon

Tornado October 31, 2024 · Lincoln County, Oregon

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$8K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

At the Oregon State University Ship Operations Facility in South Beach, Oregon, security camera footage showed a distinct circulation move northeastward across a lot before moving over the bay and impacting pilings and a dock in the water. About 20 square feet of concrete shingles were torn off the main building. Various items weighing up to 1100 pounds in the parking lot were flipped upside down or pushed aside.

The wider storm

An unstable post-frontal airmass facilitated numerous showers and thunderstorms along the coast on the morning of October 31st. Shear in the lower levels of the atmosphere combined with a stronger convective cell to produce a weak and short lived Tornado.

Began near Southbeach (44.6239, -124.0463).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1219466. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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