NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Cloverdale, OR
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Cloverdale, Oregon since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 8 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 8
- EF3 or stronger
- 0
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
no recorded deaths
What the records show for Cloverdale
The strongest of the 8 tornadoes within 25 miles was an F1 on December 12, 1975; its path came within 14 miles. Of the 8, none had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 3 have come since 2000. The most recent tornado was on November 11, 2024. Of the 149 Oregon cities on this site, 54% have more tornadoes within 25 miles than Cloverdale.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Cloverdale
By decade
- 2020s1
- 2010s1
- 2000s1
- 1990s3
- 1970s1
- 1950s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 12, 1975 | F1 | 14 mi | 2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 11, 2024 | EF0 | 25 mi | 0.25 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 6, 2009 | EF0 | 18 mi | 0.09 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 18, 1997 | F0 | 14 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 18, 1997 | F0 | 7 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 15, 1997 | F0 | 22 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 22, 1954 | F0 | 19 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 14, 2016 | Unrated | 15 mi | 0.01 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 8 of 8, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Cloverdale
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Cloverdale since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Cloverdale
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Cloverdale, OR, 4 miles south of Cloverdale at 12 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 70°F and low of 52°F; December is the coolest, at 51°F and 40°F. December is the wettest at 12.7 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.8 inches; the year adds up to 79.7 inches over 133 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 1 days a year. Lows fall below freezing on about 17 nights a year. Snowfall averages 1.0 inches a year, most of it in February. That 79.7 inches is more than at 70 of the 77 Oregon stations used on this site (91%). Tillamook, 15 miles north, has its own station (Tillamook, OR): 90.0 inches a year, 10.3 more than here, and an August average high of 69°F against 70°F.
Sea level at the Garibaldi tide gauge, 21 miles from Cloverdale, has risen 0.96 ± 0.12 inches per decade from 1970 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 9.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 56 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Snow in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 52 | 40 | 11.4 | 17 | 0.3 |
| Feb | 53 | 40 | 8.7 | 14 | 0.4 |
| Mar | 55 | 40 | 8.8 | 17 | 0.2 |
| Apr | 57 | 42 | 6.8 | 14 | 0.1 |
| May | 62 | 46 | 4.3 | 9 | 0.0 |
| Jun | 65 | 49 | 3.0 | 7 | 0.0 |
| Jul | 69 | 52 | 0.8 | 3 | 0.0 |
| Aug | 70 | 52 | 1.1 | 3 | 0.0 |
| Sep | 69 | 50 | 3.0 | 5 | 0.0 |
| Oct | 63 | 46 | 6.9 | 11 | 0.0 |
| Nov | 56 | 42 | 12.2 | 16 | 0.0 |
| Dec | 51 | 40 | 12.7 | 17 | 0.0 |
| Year | 60 | 45 | 79.7 | 133 | 1.0 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Cloverdale, OR (12 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Cloverdale
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 6 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Cloverdale: 3 floods and 3 heavy rain events.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Cloverdale's ZIP code 97112 have filed 14 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1996, and were paid $97,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 21% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 77 Oregon cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 15 have fewer than Cloverdale.
Tillamook County, which includes Cloverdale, has been named in 25 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1964, 21 of them major disasters (by incident: 11 severe storms, 7 floods, 3 fires, 2 biological emergencies). The latest major disaster declaration was Severe Storms, Straight-Line Winds, Flooding, Landslides, and Mudslides, on April 7, 2026. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Tillamook County a Relatively Moderate rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Moderate for inland flooding and coastal flooding; Relatively Low for strong wind; Very Low for tornadoes, hail, lightning and heat waves. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $39.3 million a year, the 18th highest of 36 Oregon counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $14.8 million (38%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
What counts as a pass, the distances and the sources: how this storm history is built.
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