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EF0 tornado in Snyder County, Pennsylvania

Tornado August 18, 2021 · Snyder County, Pennsylvania

EF0
Rating
0.5 mi
Path length
15 yd
Path width
$4K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 15 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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

An EF-0 tornado touched down near Kreamer during the late afternoon of August 18, 2021. The tornado touched down near the Middleburg Livestock Auction barn along Route 522 and tacked northward for approximately half a mile before lifting near the intersection of Globe Mills Road and West Hollow Road. A tree fell onto a fence on the wet side of the barn and a horse trailer was flipped on its side. A convergence wind signature was also found in a cornfield, and some trees were damaged near the end of the tornado path. The tornado had maximum winds near 70 mph, a path length of around a half a mile and a maximum path width of 15 yards.

The wider storm

An EF-0 tornado touched down near Kreamer during the late afternoon of August 18, 2021. The tornado had estimated peak winds near 70 mph, a path length of around a half a mile, and a maximum path width of 15 yards.

Began near Kreamer (40.7980, -76.9910).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 976463. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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