{"id":3185,"date":"2010-12-16T15:53:21","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T22:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=3185"},"modified":"2010-12-16T15:53:21","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T22:53:21","slug":"oregon-town-struck-by-rare-ef-2-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/oregon-town-struck-by-rare-ef-2-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon town struck by rare EF-2 tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/natural-disasters-in-national\/rare-ef-2-tornado-strikes-aumsville-oregon-picture\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"An EF-2 tornado struck the town of Aumsville, Oregon on Tuesday damaging 50 structures. Click the image for a slideshow of the damage from Examiner.com.\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_qM6V6-HRzM0\/TQqXKc_Y6II\/AAAAAAAAEAY\/xLTh90KETgk\/s288\/aumsville.jpg\" alt=\"An EF-2 tornado struck the town of Aumsville, Oregon on Tuesday damaging 50 structures. Click the image for a slideshow of the damage from Examiner.com.\" width=\"288\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An EF-2 tornado struck the town of Aumsville, Oregon on Tuesday damaging 50 structures. Click the image for a slideshow of the damage from Examiner.com.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tornadoes are not usually asssociated with Oregon or December and certainly not the two of them together.\u00a0 Tuesday however that rarest of event did occur when an EF-2 tornado packing 110+ mph winds struck the town of Aumsville.<\/p>\n<p>The first report of the tornado was at 11:59am PST when emergency personnel reported spotting the twister.\u00a0 Power was knocked out to thousands and several homes and businesses were damaged or destroyed.\u00a0 Two minor injuries were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service completed their preliminary investigation of the twister and rated the tornado as an EF-2 with winds between 110 and 120 mph.\u00a0 At its maximum the twister was 150 yards wide and carved an intermittent path 5 miles long.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the tornado including video and a photo slideshow of the damage, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/natural-disasters-in-national\/rare-tornado-that-struck-aumsville-oregon-rated-ef-2-with-100-mph-winds\">please visit the Natural Disasters Examiner<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tornadoes are not usually asssociated with Oregon or December and certainly not the two of them together.\u00a0 Tuesday however that rarest of event did occur when an EF-2 tornado packing 110+ mph winds struck the town of Aumsville. The first report of the tornado was at 11:59am PST when emergency personnel reported spotting the twister.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/national-weather\/oregon-town-struck-by-rare-ef-2-tornado\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oregon town struck by rare EF-2 tornado<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[467,156,224,295,468,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3185\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}