F0 tornado in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

Tornado July 1, 1999 · Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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 small tornado touched down on McNamie Hill Road about 3 miles east of Bodines near Kellysburg. The storm sheared off about 50 to 75 trees along a 1/2 mile path. a resident on McNamie Hill Road reported seeing debris from the trees being swept in a circle as the storm passed. The area nearby is mostly state forest land.

Began near Bodines (41.4500, -76.9300).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F1 Sullivan County F1 Warren County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5710298. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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