Tornado, Clark
- When
- September 15, 6:40 PM PST to 6:42 PM PST
- Where
- Clark County, 3 mi W of Yacolt
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.870, -122.470
A weak tornado near Yacolt knocked down 3 trees and a telephone pole.
Tornado in Washington, September 15, 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), 42 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 02:42 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
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, September 15 to 22, 1997
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, September 15, 1997
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 15, 1997
- Flood in Utah, September 15, 1997
- Tornado in Oregon, September 15, 1997
- Flash Flood in Utah, September 15, 1997
- Tornado in Oregon, September 15, 1997
- High Wind in Alaska, September 15 to 17, 1997
- Tornado and Waterspout in Florida, September 15, 1997
- Flooding in North Carolina, September 15, 1997
- Hail in Montana, September 15, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Montana, September 15, 1997
More
Every storm in Washington in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Washington, 1997Warnings in Washington, 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: 5621788.