Hail, Chester
- When
- June 28, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Chester County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 40.070, -75.900
Tornadoes and Hail in Pennsylvania, June 28, 1973
3 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
3 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, York
- When
- June 28, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- York County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.670, -76.580
Tornado, York
- When
- June 28, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- York County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 39.670, -76.580
Tornado, Bradford
- When
- June 28, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bradford County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 41.720, -76.820
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 28, 1973
- Tornado in Connecticut, June 28, 1973
- Tornado in Maryland, June 28, 1973
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 28, 1973
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Michigan, June 28, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, June 28, 1973
- Tornado in Delaware, June 28, 1973
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10115683, 10115684, 10115685, 10115686.