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EF0 tornado in Snyder County, Pennsylvania

Tornado September 8, 2021 · Snyder County, Pennsylvania

EF0
Rating
1.4 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 EF0 tornado touched down along Neitz Valley Road near Bressler Lane, to the southeast of Freeburg, during the early evening of September 8, 2021. The tornado flattened part of a cornfield before tracking southeastward for a little under 1.5 miles. It produced estimated maximum winds of around 80 mph, and had a maximum path width of approximately 30 yards. As the tornado tracked eastward, it snapped and uprooted several trees along and just north of Neitz Valley Road and Produce Road. Trees were also uprooted in a heavily wooded area just north of Inch Hill Road before the tornado lifted.

The wider storm

An EF-0 tornado touched down along Neitz Valley Road to the southeast of Freeburg during the early evening of September 8, 2021. The tornado tracked eastward for a little under 1.5 miles, and had a maximum path width of approximately 30 yards.

Began near Verdilla (40.7529, -76.9131).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 980674. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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