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Tornado in Mercer County, Pennsylvania

Tornado August 6, 2024 · Mercer County, Pennsylvania

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Not rated

0.0 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$3K

Damage as recorded

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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.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A landspout was documented in photos (EF-U). Damage was unknown, and the location was documented from photographic perspective.

The wider storm

A shortwave trough over the Great Lakes interacting with a quasi-stationary boundary over eastern Ohio and western PA spawned severe weather from mid afternoon through late evening. MLCAPE near 2000 J/kg along with a relatively strong, elongated shear profiles led to an environment for strong to severe winds and possible tornadoes.

Began near Neshannock (41.2300, -80.4100).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1201365. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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