Tornado, Tillamook
- When
- September 18, 8:30 AM PST to 8:32 AM PST
- Where
- Tillamook County, 2 mi S of Neskowin
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.070, -123.980
A tornado briefly touched down over Cascade Head around 830 AM.
Tornado in Oregon, September 18, 1997
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
- None recorded
- 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.
The radar
The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 107 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:27 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, September 18, 1997
- Heavy Snow in California, September 18 to 19, 1997
- Hail in Nebraska, September 18, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, September 18, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, September 18, 1997
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, September 18, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, September 18, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, September 18, 1997
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Wisconsin, September 18, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, September 18, 1997
- Tornado in Oregon, September 18, 1997
- Flash Flood in Colorado, September 18, 1997
More
Every storm in Oregon in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Oregon, 1997Warnings in Oregon, September 1997
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: 5621794.