2011 Joplin tornado
Overall, the tornado killed 158 people (with an additional three indirect deaths), injured some 1,150 others, and caused damages amounting to a total of $2.8 billion. It was the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since the 1947 Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes, and the seventh-deadliest overall.
1972 Portland–Vancouver tornado
In east Vancouver, the tornado struck at 12:51 p.m. (PST), where it destroyed a grocery store, along with Peter S. Ogden Elementary School injuring 70 students. Nearby, the storm demolished a bowling alley, a drive-in theater screen and damaged around 100 homes, some severely. Trees and power lines were downed and vehicles were flipped as well. Overall, the tornado killed six people and left $3–5 million (1972 USD) in damage. Two F2 tornadoes and another F3 touched down in Coulee City, Kettle Falls and Creston in Washington state later that day, though these tornadoes caused no fatalities. The small weather outbreak was the deadliest and most significant tornado event to occur in the Pacific Northwest, with winds of up to .