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EF1 tornado in Fayette County, Pennsylvania

Tornado June 22, 2026 · Fayette County, Pennsylvania

EF1

Rating

1.1 mi

Path length

140 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 140 yards (0.08 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

NWS Storm Survey confirms an EF-1 tornado with maximum wind of 90 mph.

The wider storm

A narrow warm sector along and south of a nearly stationary boundary saw showers and thunderstorms develop in the afternoon hours. Training along the boundary mostly resulted in a flash flooding threat, though moisture pooling ahead of the front supported MLCAPE values reaching 1000 J/kg, and 30-40 knots of effective shear supported some storm organization for a damaging wind and embedded tornado threat with locally backed surface wind.

Began near Elm Grove (40.0072, -79.6794).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1353537. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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