F1 tornado — Synder County, Pennsylvania

F1 tornado in Synder County, Pennsylvania

Tornado June 6, 1994 · Synder County, Pennsylvania

Rating

2.0 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

$5.0M

Crop damage

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A large macroburst produced damaging wind gusts in an eight square mile area that included parts of Washington, Penn, Union and Middlecreek Townships. Within this macroburst a tornado touched down in Kantz and exacerbated the wind related damage. The Mennonite Community in Kantz bore the brunt of the damage with 30 to 40 percent of all their structures affected. In all, six homes were destroyed, thirteen received major damage and thirty-seven other had minor or minimal damage. Twenty-two farm structures were damaged with three barns totally destroyed. The most severely damaged business was the Pepsi-Cola bottling plant in Penn Township whose roof was pealed off. Total damage included crop losses was an estimated 2.59 million dollars.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 10345561. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F1 tornado in Synder County, Pennsylvania

What the National Weather Service wrote

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