Tornado, Lane
- When
- December 5, 11:45 AM PST to 11:46 AM PST
- Where
- Lane County, Eugene to 2 mi NW of Eugene
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 44.070, -123.120
Tornado in Oregon, December 5, 1996
A cool unstable airmass produced thunderstorms over Westrern Oregon. A small tornado touched down in North Eugene inflicting an estimated 50,000 dollars in damage to a residential neighborhood, mostly from downed trees falling on houses.
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
- $50,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PQR wrote it up.
A cool unstable airmass produced thunderstorms over Westrern Oregon. A small tornado touched down in North Eugene inflicting an estimated 50,000 dollars in damage to a residential neighborhood, mostly from downed trees falling on houses.
The radar
The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 183 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:44 UTC.
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
- Heavy Snow in Utah, December 5 to 6, 1996
- Heavy Rain in California, December 5, 1996
- Heavy Rain in California, December 5, 1996
- High Wind in Colorado, December 5, 1996
- High Wind in New Mexico, December 5 to 6, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Virginia, December 5 to 6, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, December 5, 1996
- Winter Storm in Colorado, December 5 to 6, 1996
- Heavy Rain in New Jersey, December 5 to 6, 1996
- Winter Weather in North Carolina, December 5, 1996
- Heavy Rain in Pennsylvania, December 5 to 6, 1996
- Winter Weather in Virginia, December 5 to 6, 1996
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oregon, 1996Warnings in Oregon, December 1996
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: 5575743.