In fact, the last time a major tornado hit the Vancouver area was on April 5th, 1972!

At 12:24 pm on Thursday January 10th, 2008 a tornado touched down near Vancouver Lake on top of the Vancouver Lake Erg house and rowing shells. This is not a typo; my WeatherBug application suddenly popped up an alert me to….a tornado warning.

The National Weather Service briefly posted a Tornado Warning.The tornado was immediately accompanied by several funnel clouds, and an advisory issued stated that more funnel clouds were possible.

Possible Tornado Touches Down – Vancouver, WA – Things Are Getting Interesting . Date: January 10, 2008 Author: Matt Hartley. VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A rare tornado touched down Thursday in a residential area of Vancouver, downing power lines, uprooting trees, tossing shopping carts into cars and causing moments of An EF-1 tornado with winds between 90 to 110 mph hit Vancouver, Washington in 2008. All 18 training ergs were destroyed along with all the equipment and supplies. Therefore, places with the kind of warm, hot, humid weather that generates intense thunder and lightning are the places where storybook twisters frequently wreak havoc. Tornadoes are associated with the dynamics of unstable air that produces thunderstorms. The 2008 Vancouver tornado was a rare tornado that occurred in the city of Vancouver, Washington on January 10, 2008. A tornado that struck Vancouver on April 5, 1972, killed six people, injured about 300 more and caused $3 million in damage. The NWS rated this storm EF1 (wind speeds of 90-110 mph). F1 Tornado in Vancouver, Washington 1-10-2008 The end result to tree after tornado hit. As mentioned in my previous blog post, while we had a tornado event taking place in the deep south, a RARE tornado hit Vancouver, WA on the same day.Rare not only because it’s January, and in the northwest part of the country, but just rare for this area period. The EF1 tornado lifted the club's two buildings off of the ground and scattered them over 300 feet away completely destroying the contents.