Tornado, Yakima
- When
- May 9, 1:00 PM PST
- Where
- Yakima County, Gleed
- Rating
- F0
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 46.670, -120.620
A small tornado briefly touched the ground near Gleed. No damage was reported.
Tornado in Washington, May 9, 1999
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 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
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, May 9, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 9 to 10, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 9, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in South Dakota, May 9 to 26, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 9 to 23, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, May 9 to 10, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 9, 1999
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Texas, May 9, 1999
- Hail in Florida, May 9, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, May 9, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, May 9, 1999
- Flooding in South Dakota, May 9 to 31, 1999
More
Every storm in Washington in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Washington, 1999Warnings in Washington, May 1999
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: 5693973.