Tornado, Snyder
- When
- July 17, 3:44 PM EST
- Where
- Snyder County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4.5 mi
- Path width
- 73 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.730, -77.120
Tornadoes and Hail in Pennsylvania, July 17, 1992
8 tornado, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 4
- Property damage
- $1.3 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 17
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
8 tornado, 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Dauphin
- When
- July 17, 4:12 PM EST
- Where
- Dauphin County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.7 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.300, -76.720
Tornado, Lebanon
- When
- July 17, 4:34 PM EST
- Where
- Lebanon County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.320, -76.550
Tornado, Montour
- When
- July 17, 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Montour County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.050, -76.730
Tornado, Berks
- When
- July 17, 5:04 PM EST
- Where
- Berks County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 40.450, -76.270
Thunderstorm Wind, Franklin
- When
- July 17, 2:09 PM PST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Coordinates
- 40.020, -77.700
Tornado, Lebanon
- When
- July 17, 5:10 PM EST
- Where
- Lebanon County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.400, -76.380
Thunderstorm Wind, Franklin
- When
- July 17, 2:19 PM PST
- Where
- Franklin County
- Coordinates
- 39.750, -77.580
Tornado, Lebanon
- When
- July 17, 5:30 PM EST
- Where
- Lebanon County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 40.430, -76.400
Tornado, Chester
- When
- July 17, 6:30 PM EST
- Where
- Chester County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 39.900, -75.780
Thunderstorm Wind, York
- When
- July 17, 4:30 PM PST
- Where
- York County
- Coordinates
- 39.750, -76.780
Hail, Chester
- When
- July 17, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Chester County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.970, -75.620
Thunderstorm Wind, Berks
- When
- July 17, 5:27 PM PST
- Where
- Berks County
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.500, -76.130
Thunderstorm Wind, Berks
- When
- July 17, 6:21 PM PST
- Where
- Berks County
- Coordinates
- 40.580, -75.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Lehigh
- When
- July 17, 6:43 PM PST
- Where
- Lehigh County
- Coordinates
- 40.570, -75.620
Thunderstorm Wind, Lehigh
- When
- July 17, 7:03 PM PST
- Where
- Lehigh County
- Coordinates
- 40.550, -75.450
Thunderstorm Wind, Philadelphia
- When
- July 17, 7:30 PM PST
- Where
- Philadelphia County
- Coordinates
- 40.050, -75.230
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Hail in Kansas, July 17, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Maryland, July 17, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 17, 1992
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 17, 1992
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 17, 1992
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, July 17, 1992
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 17, 1992
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 17, 1992
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 17, 1992
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: 10115429, 10115430, 10115432, 10115433, 10115434, 10115427, 10115435, 10115428, 10115437, 10115439, 10115431, 10155698, 10115436, 10115438, 10115440, 10115441, 10115442.