Thunderstorm Wind, Tioga
- When
- August 28, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Tioga County
- Coordinates
- 41.980, -77.300
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 28, 1988
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Wyoming
- When
- August 28, 5:50 PM EST
- Where
- Wyoming County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 41.570, -76.070
Thunderstorm Wind, Sullivan
- When
- August 28, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Sullivan County
- Coordinates
- 41.330, -76.480
What these are
- 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.
- 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 Winds in South Carolina, August 28, 1988
- Tornadoes and Hail in New York, August 28, 1988
- Tornadoes in North Carolina, August 28, 1988
- Tornado and Hail in Vermont, August 28, 1988
- Damaging Winds in New Hampshire, August 28, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Arizona, August 28, 1988
- Damaging Wind in California, August 28, 1988
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: 10118169, 10118171, 10118170.