NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Long Beach, 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 Long Beach, 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 Long Beach
The strongest of the 6 tornadoes within 25 miles was an F1 on October 3, 1967; its path came within 17 miles. Of the 6, one had a path within 5 miles of the city centre, and one has come since 2000. The most recent tornado was on March 19, 2021. Of the 226 Washington cities on this site, 49% have more tornadoes within 25 miles than Long Beach.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Long Beach
By decade
- 2020s1
- 1990s4
- 1960s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 1967 | F1 | 17 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Mar 19, 2021 | EF0 | 4 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Sep 15, 1996 | F0 | 22 mi | 1.5 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Feb 13, 1994 | F0 | 15 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jun 13, 1991 | F0 | 10 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 1, 1990 | F0 | 25 mi | 0.2 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 Long Beach
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Long Beach since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Long Beach
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Long Beach Exp Stn, WA, in Long Beach at 25 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 67°F and low of 52°F; December is the coolest, at 48°F and 36°F. December is the wettest at 12.2 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 1.0 inches; the year adds up to 78.6 inches over 132 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs of 90°F are rare: fewer than one day a year on average. Lows fall below freezing on about 41 nights a year. That 78.6 inches is more than at 77 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (90%). Warrenton, OR, 17 miles south, has its own station (Astoria Regional Airport, OR): 70.3 inches a year, 8.3 less than here, and an August average high of 69°F against 67°F.
Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Toke Point, WA, 24 miles north, averaged 63°F in August and 47°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Astoria tide gauge, 17 miles from Long Beach, has fallen 0.06 ± 0.06 inches per decade from 1925 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 0.6 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 16 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Water °F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 49 | 36 | 12.0 | 17 | 48 |
| Feb | 50 | 35 | 7.8 | 13 | 47 |
| Mar | 52 | 37 | 8.7 | 17 | 49 |
| Apr | 55 | 40 | 6.8 | 13 | 53 |
| May | 59 | 45 | 3.6 | 8 | 57 |
| Jun | 62 | 49 | 2.6 | 7 | 60 |
| Jul | 65 | 52 | 1.0 | 3 | 62 |
| Aug | 67 | 52 | 1.6 | 4 | 63 |
| Sep | 66 | 48 | 2.7 | 5 | 61 |
| Oct | 60 | 42 | 8.2 | 12 | 57 |
| Nov | 53 | 38 | 11.4 | 16 | 52 |
| Dec | 48 | 36 | 12.2 | 18 | 49 |
| Year | 57 | 43 | 78.6 | 132 | 55 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Long Beach Exp Stn, WA (25 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals; water temperature: average of hourly readings 2021–2025 at the NOAA tide station Toke Point, 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.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Long Beach
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 5 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Long Beach: 4 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 heavy rain event. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 67 mph, on January 18, 2018.
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
Pacific County, which includes Long Beach, has been named in 27 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1964, 25 of them major disasters (by incident: 11 floods, 10 severe storms, 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 Pacific County a Relatively Moderate rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Moderate for coastal flooding; Relatively Low for inland flooding and heat waves; Very Low for tornadoes, hail, strong wind and lightning. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $106.4 million a year, the 10th highest of 39 Washington counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $8.4 million (8%), 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.
Cities near Long Beach
- Ocean Park, WA9 mi
- Warrenton, OR17 mi
- Astoria, OR21 mi
- Raymond, WA27 mi
- Seaside, OR32 mi
- Cathlamet, WA35 mi
- Westport, WA36 mi
- Cosmopolis, WA41 mi
- Clatskanie, OR42 mi
- Ocean Shores, WA43 mi
- Aberdeen, WA43 mi
- Nehalem, OR46 mi
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