Tornado in Oregon, April 28, 2000

Name: Tornado in Oregon, April 28, 2000
Start: 2000-04-28T15:00
End: 2000-04-28T15:00
Location: Oregon

April 28, 2000 · NWS PQR · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
Property damage: $35,000
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.

The radar

The Portland,OR radar (KRTX), 20 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:57 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Columbia

When: April 28, 3:00 PM PST
Where: Columbia County, St Helens
Rating: F0
Path length: 0.1 mi
Path width: 10 yd
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $35,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 45.867, -122.817

An F0 tornado touched down near Old Portland Road and Kastor Road in St. Helens. A tree was blown over across a fence adjacent to Old Portland Road and in front of the McCormick Park apartment building. Another tree was broken off and fell across the apartment building. Limbs broken off and picked up by the winds resulted in one broken window and one minor injury. One apartment occupant, who was on her balcony at the time, was hit in the shoulder by an airborne limb. There was about $35,000 damage to the building and fence. There were no fatalities.

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.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Oregon in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Oregon, 2000 Warnings in Oregon, April 2000

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: 5142177.