Tornado, Lancaster
- When
- June 15, 4:37 PM EST
- Where
- Lancaster County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 40.030, -76.430
Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, June 15, 1989
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
- 6
- Property damage
- $3.0 million
- 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.
Tornado, York
- When
- June 15, 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- York County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 9 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 39.970, -76.670
Tornado, Lancaster
- When
- June 15, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Lancaster County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.030, -76.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Chester
- When
- June 15, 5:25 PM CST
- Where
- Chester County
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -75.820
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.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Tornado and Hail in Montana, June 15, 1989
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- Damaging Wind in Idaho, June 15, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Delaware, June 15, 1989
- Damaging Wind in Utah, June 15, 1989
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: 10114855, 10114853, 10114854, 10114856.