F0 tornado in Benton County, Oregon

Tornado June 1, 1997 · Benton County, Oregon

Rating

1.5 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado was seen skipping along an unpopulated rural area 15 miles west of Albany by a pilot. No other information is available.

Began near Albany (44.6300, -123.3800).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5611516. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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