Tornado, Pierce
- When
- June 23, 1:30 PM PST to 1:32 PM PST
- Where
- Pierce County, Ruston
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.4 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 47.300, -122.500
Tornado in Washington, June 23, 1996
A brief weak tornado touched down on the north end of Tacoma. It tore shingles from roofs, knocked down a few trees and tossed around garbage cans and patio furniture.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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 SEW wrote it up.
A brief weak tornado touched down on the north end of Tacoma. It tore shingles from roofs, knocked down a few trees and tossed around garbage cans and patio furniture. Damage was less than $100,000.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, June 23, 1996
- Heat in South Carolina, June 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, June 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, June 23, 1996
- Tornado in Indiana, June 23, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, June 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 23, 1996
- Hail in Iowa, June 23, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, June 23, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, June 23, 1996
More
Every storm in Washington in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Washington, 1996Warnings in Washington, June 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: 5550757.