Associated Press
 
May 8, 2009
 
ADAMS, Ore. -- The National Weather Service says a windstorm that carved a path about four miles southeast of the Eastern Oregon town Adams was a tornado.
 
The Wednesday evening storm left a path 1.6 miles long and 40 yards wide.
 
The East Oregonian of Pendleton says the winds swept up a 100-foot section of metal roof from a workshop and dropped it onto another building.
 
The twister also threw 50-gallon drums up to a quarter mile away, uprooted trees, tore down limbs and drove a wooden plank through a frame building.
 
South of the tornado track winds drove golf ball-size hail through vinyl siding, and nickel-size hail covered the ground.
 
There were no immediate reports of injuries. Adams is northeast of Pendleton.