Tornado in Washington, April 26, 1993

Name: Tornado in Washington, April 26, 1993
Start: 1993-04-26T09:00
End: 1993-04-26T09:05
Location: Washington

April 26, 1993 · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $500,000
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.

Tornado, Waz001

When: April 26, 9:00 AM EST to 9:05 AM EST
Where: Waz001 County, To 10 Ne
Rating: F1
Path length: 5 mi
Path width: 70 yd
Property damage: $500,000

A spotter in Enumclaw reported winds of 40 to 60 mph.

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

Every storm in Washington in 1993 Every state in 1993 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Washington, 1993 Warnings in Washington, April 1993

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: 10356158.