Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 19, 1996

Name: Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 19, 1996
Start: 1996-07-19T11:10
End: 1996-07-19T11:15
Location: Pennsylvania

July 19, 1996 · NWS CTP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:11 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Cambria

When: July 19, 11:10 AM EST to 11:15 AM EST
Where: Cambria County, Colver to 2 mi W of Loretto
Rating: F2
Path length: 6 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Coordinates: 40.550, -78.750

An F2 tornado touched down around 11:10 a.m. EST 2 miles east of Colver and tracked 6 miles southeast before ending 1 mile west of Loretto. The path width was 100 yards. Two homes and a barn were destroyed by this storm. Several roofs and a second barn were also damaged. A central suction vortex was visible in crop damage.

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.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 1996 Every state in 1996 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 1996 Warnings in Pennsylvania, July 1996

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5571637.