Tornado, Grays Harbor
- When
- December 22, 11:15 PM PST to 11:17 PM PST
- Where
- Grays Harbor County, 5 mi S of Westport
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 15 yd
- Coordinates
- 46.830, -124.080
Tornado in Washington, December 22, 1997
The weak tornado caused little damage. It ripped up a section of fencing and dropped it 25 ft from its original location and some other debris was blown around.
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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS SEW wrote it up.
The weak tornado caused little damage. It ripped up a section of fencing and dropped it 25 ft from its original location and some other debris was blown around.
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
- Heavy Snow in New Mexico, December 22 to 23, 1997
- Ice Storm in New York, December 22, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Vermont, December 22 to 23, 1997
- Winter Weather in Vermont, December 22 to 23, 1997
- Winter Weather in New York, December 22 to 23, 1997
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in Pennsylvania, December 22 to 23, 1997
- Winter Weather in Michigan, December 22, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Texas, December 22 to 23, 1997
- Winter Storm and Winter Weather in New Jersey, December 22 to 23, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Arizona, December 22, 1997
- Heavy Snow in Oklahoma, December 22 to 23, 1997
- Dense Fog in Oregon, December 22, 1997
More
Every storm in Washington in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Washington, 1997Warnings in Washington, December 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: 5621157.