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EF0 tornado in Cowlitz County, Washington

Tornado October 28, 2024 · Cowlitz County, Washington

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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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

A short-lived waterspout over the Columbia River near the Lewis and Clark bridge at Longview occurred with multiple photos taken from the Lewis and Clark Bridge to the west. Indicated on radar and media reported.

The wider storm

Widespread showers and isolated thunderstorms impacted the region after a frontal passage with cold air advecting overhead encouraging instability. Enough shear was present to facilitate a waterspout.

Began near Longview (46.1258, -122.9929).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1219469. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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