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EF1 tornado in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Tornado September 1, 2021 · Bucks County, Pennsylvania
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Burlington County, New Jersey → Bucks County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
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 the National Weather Service wrote
The tornado which began in Burlington County, New Jersey crossed the Burlington-Bristol Bridge and moved into Bucks County, Pennsylvania. As the tornado passed through a wooded floodplain along
the banks of the Delaware River, no visible damage was noted
either. The tornado then lifted just before reaching downtown
Bristol, PA, with several trees being snapped along the Bristol
Wharf.
The wider storm
The remnants of Hurricane Ida impacted the mid-Atlantic on September 1, 2021. As it moved northward, Ida began transitioning to a strong mid-latitude cyclone with pronounced frontal features, but with continued tropical moisture. On a regional level, the remnants of Ida became one of the most severe natural disasters in US history, due to a combination of several tornadoes, some of them strong, as well as catastrophic flooding over a large and densely populated area. The severe weather threat unfolded as the system's developing warm front lifted northward from the Delmarva region into Pennsylvania and New Jersey. South of the warm front, partial clearing and moderate to strong instability developed. Meanwhile, very strong shear and forcing, along with tropical moisture, were present within the warm sector. The result was widespread convection in the form of both supercell and quasi-linear thunderstorms. A number of storms became severe across the region, producing several tornadoes and other instances of wind damage. This continued an exceptionally active stretch of high end severe weather in the region, coming barely a month after the tornado outbreak of July 29.
Began near West Bristol (40.0816, -74.8695).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 972397. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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