When a strong and sudden wind event ripped the roof off of a motorcycle shop in Longview on Sunday afternoon , security cameras from Brusco Tug & Barge across the street caught the whole thing.

While the National Weather Service in Portland hasn’t completely ruled out a tornado, the wind and rain that swept through Longview at 3:13 p.m. Sunday appear likely to have happened in a straight line, according to Adam Batz, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Portland.

A damage survey done Sunday evening showed evidence of strong winds, Batz said, but it was missing one tell-tale sign of a tornado: “We didn’t see any signs of rotation in that storm.”

Still, the weather service believes winds reached peak speed of 80 to 85 mph, the speed of a “low-end tornado,” according to B

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