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EF0 tornado in Lincoln County, Oregon

Tornado November 6, 2009 · Lincoln County, Oregon

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

80 yd

Path width

$35K

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

The tornado caused widespread damage to a neighborhood in the Roads End area of Lincoln City, damaging 11 homes, 3 automobiles, and uprooting a couple trees and snapping another. The uprooted trees were about 20-24 inches in diameter, and one was carried 20 yards downwind. One home had major roof damage, with 40-50% of the roof collapsed.

The wider storm

A strong thunderstorm moved over the coastal waters on during the evening, which spawned a waterspout that moved ashore as a tornado.

Began near Neotsu (45.0100, -124.0100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 203900. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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