Tornado, Westmoreland
- When
- July 15, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Westmoreland County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.080, -79.920
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 15, 1976
1 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Dauphin
- When
- July 15, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dauphin County
- Coordinates
- 40.270, -76.870
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 Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 15, 1976
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Virginia, July 15, 1976
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 15, 1976
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, July 15, 1976
- Tornadoes in Texas, July 15, 1976
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 15, 1976
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, July 15, 1976
- Damaging Wind in District of Columbia, July 15, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, July 15, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 15, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 15, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 15, 1976
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: 10117963, 10117964.