NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Langley, WA
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 Langley, Washington since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 6 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 6
- 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 Langley
The highest rating among the 6 tornadoes within 25 miles is F2, reached 2 times; the most recent, on May 13, 1986, came within 23 miles. Of the 6, none had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and 2 have come since 2000. The most recent tornado was on May 18, 2005. Of the 226 Washington cities on this site, 49% have more tornadoes within 25 miles than Langley.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Langley
By decade
- 2000s2
- 1990s1
- 1980s1
- 1970s2
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 1986 | F2 | 23 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 24, 1970 | F2 | 12 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 18, 2005 | F1 | 15 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 26, 1971 | F1 | 25 mi | 3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jun 5, 2004 | F0 | 17 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Aug 24, 1997 | F0 | 18 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 6 of 6, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Langley
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Langley since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Langley
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Everett Snohomish Airport, WA, 12 miles southeast of Langley at 606 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 73°F and low of 55°F; December is the coolest, at 45°F and 36°F. November is the wettest at 5.0 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.8 inches; the year adds up to 33.4 inches over 92 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 29 nights a year. That 33.4 inches is more than at 41 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (48%). Freeland, 4 miles west, has its own station (Port Townsend, WA): 19.0 inches a year, 14.4 less than here, and the same August average high, 73°F.
Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Port Townsend, WA, 15 miles west, averaged 53°F in August and 46°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Port Townsend tide gauge, 15 miles from Langley, has risen 0.72 ± 0.11 inches per decade from 1972 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 7.2 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 34 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Water °F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 46 | 37 | 3.9 | 11 | 47 |
| Feb | 48 | 37 | 2.8 | 10 | 46 |
| Mar | 52 | 39 | 3.6 | 11 | 47 |
| Apr | 56 | 43 | 2.7 | 8 | 48 |
| May | 63 | 48 | 2.1 | 7 | 50 |
| Jun | 66 | 51 | 1.9 | 5 | 51 |
| Jul | 72 | 55 | 0.8 | 2 | 53 |
| Aug | 73 | 55 | 1.0 | 3 | 53 |
| Sep | 68 | 52 | 1.7 | 5 | 53 |
| Oct | 58 | 46 | 3.4 | 8 | 51 |
| Nov | 50 | 40 | 5.0 | 12 | 50 |
| Dec | 45 | 36 | 4.5 | 12 | 48 |
| Year | 58 | 45 | 33.4 | 92 | 50 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Everett Snohomish Airport, WA (606 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals; water temperature: average of hourly readings 2021–2025 at the NOAA tide station Port Townsend, WA, from NOAA Tides & Currents. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Langley's ZIP code 98260 have filed 28 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1996, and were paid $297,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. 7% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 128 Washington cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 37 have fewer than Langley.
Island County, which includes Langley, has been named in 22 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1980, 20 of them major disasters (by incident: 12 severe storms, 5 floods, 2 biological emergencies, 1 coastal storm). 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 Island County a Relatively Low rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Moderate for coastal flooding; Relatively Low for inland flooding and lightning; Very Low for tornadoes, hail, strong wind and heat waves. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $39.3 million a year, the 21st highest of 39 Washington counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $7.9 million (20%), 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).
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