Oregonians are picking up the debris from intense thunderstorms Thursday that downed trees and power lines.      

The storms began early in afternoon.  They moved through Eugene up the Willamette Valley into Portland.    

People reported golf ball size hail and wind gusts approaching sixty-five miles per hour. 

“I mean the thing was a monster,” said Jonathan Wolfe, a forecaster with the National Weather Service.  “Talking just to other people in the office, they say that happens maybe once in every ten, twenty years.”

Wolfe says a tornado touched down in Mill City, southeast of Salem.  The Weather Service is reviewing information to verify reports of tornadoes in Newberg and Peoria.  There have been no reported injuries.  The weather pattern that's been pushing thunderstorms up from California over the past few days is shifting.  Any remaining thunderstorms are expected to stay east of the Cascades through the weekend.