Tornado, Clark
- When
- May 11, 3:35 PM PST to 4:00 PM PST
- Where
- Clark County, Battle Ground
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.9 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 45.767, -122.517
Tornado in Washington, May 11, 2000
A weak tornado moved through Battleground. Three houses had minor damage as did a restaurant ( blew away a sign and some metal strips of the awning).
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PQR wrote it up.
A weak tornado moved through Battleground. Three houses had minor damage as did a restaurant ( blew away a sign and some metal strips of the awning). A pickup canopy resting on sawhorses was blown about 100 feet. In addition, a section of wooden fence was blown down, and 2 to 4 inch limbs were broken off of a tree. No injuries were reported.
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 Hail in Iowa, May 11, 2000
- Tornado and Hail in Missouri, May 11 to 12, 2000
- Heat in Texas, May 11, 2000
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, May 11 to 12, 2000
- Tornadoes and Flood in Iowa, May 11, 2000
- Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, May 11 to 12, 2000
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Kansas, May 11, 2000
- High Surf in California, May 11 to 12, 2000
- Hail in Iowa, May 11, 2000
- Hail and Lightning Strikes in Michigan, May 11, 2000
- Damaging Winds in South Dakota, May 11, 2000
- Hail in Iowa, May 11, 2000
More
Every storm in Washington in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Washington, 2000Warnings in Washington, May 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: 5145161.