Instead, smaller, shorter, low-top thunderstorms formed off the Oregon and Washington coasts and moved ashore.The other ingredient, wind shear, was plentiful.This change in wind speed and/or direction with height is what helps generate rotating thunderstorms.Tuesday's same strong upper-level system that generated such cold air aloft also produced an environment of deep spin, known to meteorologists as vorticity.Any thunderstorm able to blossom in such an environment was capable of generating at least a short-lived tornado or waterspout.Hidden Weather Icon Symbols window._i18n=JSON. Com FREE DELIVERY possible on eligible purchases The tornado outbreak of November 17, 2013, was the deadliest and. 75 homes damaged after tornado hits Pendleton.
PT and had maximum winds between 125-130 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Portland.Tillamook County Sheriff Andy Long said the Manzanita tornado path was about "10 streets long" and traveled "right through the center of town."Manzanita Mayor Garry Bullard declared a state of emergency.Debbie Harmon, owner of the Amanita Galley, said most of the damage is near the beach and downtown.“It was a normal beach storm, which we get a lot of, and then out of nowhere the wind went ‘whoooo,’” she said. — Two tornadoes touched down Friday in Oregon, including one that damaged several city blocks in the coastal town of Manzanita, as heavy rain walloped the Pacific Northwest.The Manzanita tornado hit at around 8:20 a.m. Watch Video: Severe weather on track for Pacific NorthwestPORTLAND, Ore.
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In addition, the National Weather Service says a 103-mph wind gust was recorded at Cape Meares.Meteorologists expect a lull before the remnants of Typhoon Songda, which wreaked havoc in the western Pacific days ago, hit the Pacific Northwest on Saturday. Pacific Power reported that 2,800 customers in coastal communities had no lights, down from a peak of more than 15,000.At one point, 15,000 customers were without power in Seattle.Portland had the rainiest Oct. The Seattle Fire Department said the child suffered serious injuries and the father minor injuries.The heavy rain created dangerous conditions throughout the region, as drivers tried to see out rain-pounded windshields and navigate through standing water on roads.In Oregon, Portland General Electric reported that more than 4,000 customers were without power early Friday. Maybe a small waterspout 20 years ago," Taylor said.Watch Video: Raw: Tornado touches down in Oregon beach townElsewhere, thousands of people were without power as utility crews in the region prepared for what’s expected to be an even rougher storm on Saturday.In Seattle, a 4-year-old boy and his father were injured by a falling tree branch. Many people own second homes there, he said."Many of our houses, especially this time of year, are not occupied," said Taylor.The Red Cross opened a shelter at the Calvary Bible Church in Manzanita."I haven’t seen anything like this in my 20 years here. And then it just stopped.”City manager Jerry Taylor said Manzanita has a permanent population of about 620 people.
Mayor Ed Murray urged residents to avoid the city’s many parks during the wet weekend weather.
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