Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS State College, PA

SUPPLEMENTARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA.
ISSUED 510 PM EDT   THU  JUN 22 1989

               EVENT               DATE/TIME   COUNTY      CITY

            TORNADO                6/20 800PM  FRANKLIN   ABOUT 1 MILES
                                                          SOUTH OF MT ALTO

INTERVIEWED THREE EYE WITNESSES...ALL VOLUNTEER FIREMEN. ONE OBSERVED THE
FUNNEL FOR 2 TO 3 MINUTES. THE OTHER TWO FOR 4 TO 5 MINUTES. TWO SAID
FUNNEL ON GROUND 10 TO 15 SECONDS WHEN IT DESTROYED BARN AND ADJOINING
MILKING PARLOR. ROOF DAMAGE TO ANOTHER NEARBY BARN. FARMHOUSE ABOUT 250
FEET NORTH NORTHEAST OF DESTROYED BUILDING HAD NO DAMAGE. ALL DEBRIS WAS
CLEANED UP WHEN WE ARRIVED. WE WERE TOLD IT WAS SCATTERED IN ALL FOUR
DIRECTIONS.

FUNNEL APPEARED TO HAVE MOVED FROM SOUTH TO NORTH. PATH ESTIMATED FROM
ADDITIONAL TREE DAMAGE TO BE ABOUT ONE THIRD TO ONE HALF MILE. ESTIMATED
75 FEET WIDE AT WIDEST POINT FROM GRASS IN MEADOW. PATH ENDED AT DESTROYED
BUILDING. ESTIMATED WIND 80 TO 100 MPH. HEAVY RAIN BEFORE TORNADO OCCURRED.
IT WAS NOT RAINING WHEN FUNNEL WAS OBSERVED. NO NOISE WAS HEARD. IT
APPEARED FUNNEL HAD BECOME NARROWER WHEN IT HIT BUILDING.

HEAVY RAINS WAS CAUSING SMALL STREAM FLOODING WITHIN THREE MILES OF
OF TOUCHDOWN.

END
WSO HAR JORDAN

SUPPLEMENTARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HARRISBURG PA.
ISSUED 600 PM EDT   THU  JUN 22 1989

               EVENT               DATE/TIME   COUNTY      CITY

             TORNAD0           6/20 815-830 PM PERRY    ABOUT 7 MILES
                                                        WEST OF LOYSVILLE

MORROW FARM...ROOF BLOWN OFF AND END BLOWN OUT OF BARN. PART OF ROOF OFF
ANOTHER OUT BUILDING. OTHER NEARBY SHED AND FARMHOUSE NOT DAMAGED. FOUR
EYE WUTNESSES...KEN MORROW AND THREE SONS. THEY WERE IN NON-DAMGED SHED
WHEN WIND BEGAN TO BLOW. THEY OBSERVED FLYING DEBRIS FROM ROOFS. THEY
OBSERVED TWO FUNNELS MOVING AWAY FROM THEIR FARM TOWARD THE NORTHEAST.
DEBRIS FROM OUT BUIDING WAS IN FIELD TO SOUTH. BARN TIN SHEET DEBRIS WAS
WEST AND NORTH. SOME DEBRIS 1 TO 1/2 MILES TO NORTH WHERE IT DAMAGED A
FENCE ON ANOTHER FARM. NO NOISE HEARD. HEAVY RAIN AT TIME. NEIGHBOR RAIN
GAGE RECORDED 5 INCHES...ALL IT COULD HOLD. NO OBSERVED FUNNEL PATH.

ANOTHER EYE WITNESS...WALTER GOODLING WHOSE HOME IN APPROXIMATELY 2 MILES
NORTH NORTHEAST OF MORROW PLACE. HE OBSERVED ONE FUNNEL MOVING TOWARD
HIS HOUSE. FUNNEL PRESUMED TO BE SAME ONE OBSERVED AT THE MORROW FARM.
GOODLING FARM FENCE BELIEVED DAMAGED FROM DEBRIS FROM MORROW FARM.

A GARAGE PARTIALLY COLLASPED AND ROOF WAS DISLODGED. THIS ABOUT 300 FEET
WEST OF GOODLING HOUSE. MAN IN GARAGE RECEIVED CRITIAL CHEST INJURY. TWO
OTHER HOUSES WITHIN 30 TO 40 FEET OF DAMAGED GARAGE HAD NO DAMAGE. TREE
NEAR GARAGE SNAPPED OFF OTHER TREES NEARBY NO APPEARANCE DAMAGE. NEIGHBORS
ACROSS ROAD...WEST OF DAMAGED GARAGE...HEARD NOISE "LIKE OLD TIME TRAIN".
THEIR HOUSE HAD NO DAMAGE.

ANOTHER HOUSE...APPROXIMATELY 200 FEET NORTH OF DAMAGED GARAGE...RECEIVED
NO DAMAGE BUT HAD A 16 FOOT BLUE SPRUCE UPROOTED. ANOTHER TYPE TREE 8 INCH
IN DIAMETER SNAPPED OFF...ALL IN BACKYARD. TREES FELL IN DIFFERENT
DIRECTIONS.  HEAVY RAIN AT TIME. ESTHER COLLINS...LADY AT HOUSE OBSERVED
BOWL LIKE THING UNDER CLOUD JUST BEFORE TREE DAMAGE OCCURRED.

WE COULD NOT DETERMINE ANY FUNNEL PATH ON GROUND. IT APPEARED IT MUST HAVE
BEEN A TOUCH AND GO THING AS IT MOVED TOWARD NORTH NORTHEAST. ESTIMATED
WIND SPEED 115 TO 130 MPH.

SMALL STREAM AND FIELD FLOODING OCCURRING IN THE AREA WHEN FUNNEL APPEARED.

WSO HAR JORDAN