NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Longview, 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 Longview, Washington since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 11 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 11
- 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 Longview
The highest rating among the 11 tornadoes within 25 miles is F1 or EF1, reached 4 times; the most recent, on October 23, 2014, came within 2 miles. Of the 11, 3 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 7 have come since 2000. October has had the most tornadoes, 4. The most recent tornado was on October 28, 2024. Longview has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 73% of the 226 Washington cities on this site. Hail has been reported within 10 miles once, in 2022, with stones of 0.25 inches. Longview has more hail reports within 10 miles than 46% of the 226 Washington cities.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Longview
By decade
- 2020s3
- 2010s1
- 2000s3
- 1980s3
- 1960s1
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 2014 | EF1 | 2 mi | 1.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jun 29, 1989 | F1 | 24 mi | 1.6 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Mar 28, 1985 | F1 | 4 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 13, 1984 | F1 | 20 mi | 3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 28, 2024 | EF0 | 2 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Oct 11, 2023 | EF0 | 24 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Nov 10, 2020 | EF0 | 21 mi | 1.7 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Jun 6, 2004 | F0 | 9 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 27, 2004 | F0 | 25 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 28, 2000 | F0 | 21 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 1 |
| Nov 10, 1965 | F0 | 6 mi | 0.1 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 11 of 11, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Longview
The Storm Prediction Center has one hail report within 10 miles of Longview, from May 19, 2022: 0.25 inches.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Longview
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Longview, WA, 3 miles east of Longview at 12 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 80°F and low of 53°F; December is the coolest, at 47°F and 35°F. November is the wettest at 7.2 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.6 inches; the year adds up to 48.0 inches over 116 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 9 days a year, almost all from June to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 41 nights a year. That 48.0 inches is more than at 57 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (66%). Clatskanie, OR, 15 miles west, has its own station (Clatskanie, OR): 54.7 inches a year, 6.7 more than here, and an August average high of 76°F against 80°F.
Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Longview, WA, 4 miles south, averaged 72°F in August and 42°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Astoria tide gauge, 38 miles from Longview, 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 | 48 | 35 | 6.5 | 15 | 43 |
| Feb | 52 | 35 | 4.8 | 12 | 42 |
| Mar | 57 | 38 | 4.9 | 14 | 45 |
| Apr | 62 | 40 | 4.1 | 12 | 50 |
| May | 69 | 45 | 3.1 | 8 | 56 |
| Jun | 73 | 50 | 2.0 | 6 | 62 |
| Jul | 79 | 53 | 0.6 | 2 | 70 |
| Aug | 80 | 53 | 1.0 | 2 | 72 |
| Sep | 76 | 50 | 2.3 | 5 | 68 |
| Oct | 64 | 44 | 4.4 | 10 | 62 |
| Nov | 53 | 39 | 7.2 | 15 | 52 |
| Dec | 47 | 35 | 7.1 | 15 | 46 |
| Year | 63 | 43 | 48.0 | 116 | 55 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Longview, WA (12 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals; water temperature: average of hourly readings 2021–2025 at the NOAA tide station Longview, 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 Longview
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 31 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Longview: 24 floods, 4 heavy rain events, 2 thunderstorm wind reports and 1 lightning strike. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $256.1 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 85 mph, on October 12, 2025.
September 6, 2019: lightning strike 3 miles from the centre of Longview — 1 injured.
September 17, 2020: flood 3 miles from the centre of Longview — $250.0 million damage.
NWS: “Widespread street flooding in Longview resulting in several businesses in the downtown area experiencing flooding. The first floor of the local Hospital also flooded due to heavy rain.”
December 8, 2015: flood 3 miles from the centre of Longview — $2.1 million damage.
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 Longview's ZIP code 98632 have filed 122 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1980, and were paid $2.3 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Mt. St. Helens Eruption in 1980: 36 claims (30% of all) and $707,000, then Flooding in 1996 with 10. 41% 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, 97 have fewer than Longview.
| Event | Claims | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Mt. St. Helens Eruption1980 | 36 | $707,000 |
| Flooding1996 | 10 | $180,000 |
Cowlitz County, which includes Longview, has been named in 23 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1964, 21 of them major disasters (by incident: 11 floods, 6 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 Cowlitz County a Relatively Moderate rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively Moderate for inland flooding and heat waves; Relatively Low for coastal flooding and strong wind; Very Low for tornadoes, hail and lightning. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $88.2 million a year, the 13th highest of 39 Washington counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $33.6 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).
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