Tornado, Bucks
- When
- June 29, 12:00 AM CST
- Where
- Bucks County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1.9 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.230, -75.030
Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 29, 1973
3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $53,000
- 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 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Chester
- When
- June 29, 12:00 AM CST
- Where
- Chester County
- Coordinates
- 39.920, -75.970
Tornado, Northampton
- When
- June 29, 1:30 AM CST
- Where
- Northampton County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.670, -75.330
Tornado, Delaware
- When
- June 29, 9:45 AM CST
- Where
- Delaware County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1.9 mi
- Path width
- 63 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 39.930, -75.480
What these are
- 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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Kentucky, June 29, 1973
- Tornadoes in New Jersey, June 29, 1973
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 29, 1973
- Tornado in Connecticut, June 29, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Idaho, June 29, 1973
- Damaging Winds in Montana, June 29, 1973
- Hail in Indiana, June 29, 1973
- Damaging Wind in Wyoming, June 29, 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: 10115687, 10115688, 10115689, 10115690.