NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Raymond, 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 Raymond, Washington since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 3 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 0 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 3
- 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 Raymond
The highest rating among the 3 tornadoes within 25 miles is F0, reached 3 times; the most recent, on December 23, 1997, came within 22 miles. Of the 226 Washington cities on this site, 73% have more tornadoes within 25 miles than Raymond.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Raymond
By decade
- 1990s3
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 23, 1997 | F0 | 22 mi | 0.3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Aug 26, 1997 | F0 | 25 mi | 0.5 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Dec 1, 1990 | F0 | 5 mi | 0.2 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 3 of 3, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Raymond
The Storm Prediction Center has no hail reports within 10 miles of Raymond since 1955.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Raymond
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Raymond 2 S, WA, 3 miles southwest of Raymond at 30 feet. August is the warmest, with an average high of 73°F and low of 50°F; December is the coolest, at 47°F and 32°F. January is the wettest at 13.1 inches of precipitation on average and July the driest at 0.9 inches; the year adds up to 83.5 inches over 137 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 3 days a year, almost all from August. Lows fall below freezing on about 82 nights a year. Snowfall averages 1.1 inches a year, most of it in January and December. That 83.5 inches is more than at 81 of the 86 Washington stations used on this site (94%). Cosmopolis, 16 miles north, has its own station (Aberdeen, WA): 85.0 inches a year, 1.5 more than here, and an August average high of 69°F against 73°F.
Water temperature at the NOAA tide station Toke Point, WA, 14 miles west, averaged 63°F in August and 47°F in February over 2021–2025. No month averaged 80°F. Sea level at the Toke Point tide gauge, 14 miles from Raymond, has risen 0.18 ± 0.13 inches per decade from 1973 to 2025, NOAA's linear trend; at that pace it is 1.8 inches in a hundred years. That is faster than at 19 of the 144 U.S. gauges with a NOAA trend.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Snow in | Water °F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 48 | 33 | 13.1 | 18 | 0.5 | 48 |
| Feb | 51 | 32 | 8.7 | 14 | 0.1 | 47 |
| Mar | 54 | 35 | 9.7 | 17 | 0.0 | 49 |
| Apr | 58 | 37 | 6.5 | 14 | 0.0 | 53 |
| May | 63 | 43 | 3.6 | 9 | 0.0 | 57 |
| Jun | 67 | 47 | 2.6 | 7 | 0.0 | 60 |
| Jul | 71 | 51 | 0.9 | 3 | 0.0 | 62 |
| Aug | 73 | 50 | 1.4 | 3 | 0.0 | 63 |
| Sep | 70 | 46 | 3.1 | 6 | 0.0 | 61 |
| Oct | 61 | 40 | 8.3 | 12 | 0.0 | 57 |
| Nov | 52 | 35 | 13.0 | 17 | 0.0 | 52 |
| Dec | 47 | 32 | 12.6 | 17 | 0.5 | 49 |
| Year | 59 | 40 | 83.5 | 137 | 1.1 | 55 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Raymond 2 S, WA (30 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 Raymond
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 10 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Raymond: 9 floods and 1 heavy rain event. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $11.0 million in property and crop damage.
December 3, 2007: flood in Raymond — $10.0 million damage.
NWS: “The Willapa River flooded near Willapa, reaching major flood levels. Downtown Raymond had a depth of 2 feet of flood water due to a combination of coastal flooding and flooding of the Willapa.”
January 6, 2022: flood 9 miles from the centre of Raymond — $990,000 damage.
NWS: “0 feet), then dropped below flood stage on the 7th at 1750PST. ) Two people were sheltered.”
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 Raymond's ZIP code 98577 have filed 57 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1978, and were paid $611,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 1982, with 17. 9% 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, 74 have fewer than Raymond.
Pacific County, which includes Raymond, 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).
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