Wild weather on the Oregon coast may have gotten even wilder than expected late Monday night when a tornado hit the land near Rockaway Beach, according to a preliminary report from the National Weather Service.

There was one instance back in April 1972 where an F3 tornado struck the Portland-Vancouver Metro Area, resulting in six fatalities,” Noah Alviz, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Portland,

PORTLAND, Ore. ( KOIN) — A trained weather spotter reported a possible tornado Monday evening around 9:24 p.m. in Rockaway Beach, which the National Weather Service then confirmed as an EF-0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 85 mph.