EF1 tornado in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Damage was to hardwood and softwood trees, especially along the

second half the of track where it was confined to the Greater

Allegheny Passage, and ended in the Camp Carmel area.

The tornado started off on West Crawford Avenue where numerous

large branches and trees were uprooted. The twister continued

southeast into the Greenwood Heights area where scattered large

branches and snapped smaller hardwood trees were observed. As the

storm moved south into the Wheeler section there was sporadic

damage of down large limbs. Two pine trees were uprooted on Pine

Tree Lane.

The intensity picked backed up as it went along the Yough river

and the Greater Allegheny Passage. There were a mixture of

uprooted trees and down large branches from mile marker 87 on the

trail until mile marker 82. The worse damage viewed was at mile

marker 83.5 and just off the trail and Camp Carmel. At both of

these points, there were at least 10-15 hard wood trees snapped or

uprooted. Two buildings at Camp Carmel had trees fall on them

causing damage. This was the only structural damage observed.

Strong thunderstorms developed along a cold front across the Central and Lower Great Lakes during the late evening and overnight hours of August 24-25, 2023. These thunderstorms were in an environment of strong to extreme instability, along with sufficient low-level and deep-layer wind shear for organized and rotating thunderstorms. This allowed storms that developed over Michigan to organize into a fast-moving cluster of thunderstorms that produced extensive wind damage and a number of tornadoes between southern Lower Michigan and southwestern Pennsylvania, and Ohio.