Tornado, Centre
- When
- July 29, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Centre County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.720, -77.980
Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, July 29, 1976
4 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
- $2.8 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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
4 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Delaware
- When
- July 29, 12:44 PM CST
- Where
- Delaware County
- Coordinates
- 39.880, -75.350
Tornado, Lycoming
- When
- July 29, 12:45 PM CST
- Where
- Lycoming County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 25 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 41.200, -77.270
Tornado, Bradford
- When
- July 29, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Bradford County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 41.830, -76.400
Tornado, Lancaster
- When
- July 29, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lancaster County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.8 mi
- Path width
- 77 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.100, -76.480
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 in North Carolina, July 29, 1976
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, July 29, 1976
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, July 29, 1976
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, July 29, 1976
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 29, 1976
- Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 29, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 29, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, July 29, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 29, 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: 10117966, 10117967, 10117968, 10117969, 10117970.