Tornado, Spokane
- When
- June 22, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Spokane County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 47.950, -117.450
Tornado in Washington, June 22, 1981
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $250
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, June 22, 1981
- Tornado in New Hampshire, June 22, 1981
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 22, 1981
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, June 22, 1981
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 22, 1981
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 22, 1981
- Tornado and Hail in New Mexico, June 22, 1981
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 22, 1981
- Hail in Colorado, June 22, 1981
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, June 22, 1981
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 22, 1981
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 22, 1981
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10146520.