Tornado, Bedford
- When
- July 19, 12:30 PM EST to 12:45 PM EST
- Where
- Bedford County, Penwood to Everett
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.020, -78.470
Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 19, 1996
m. EST near Hospital Hill east of Bedford near Penwood and moved one quarter mile southeast before ending near Route 30 east of Everett a distance of about 5 miles.
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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS CTP wrote it up.
An F0 tornado was sighted about 12:30 p.m. EST near Hospital Hill east of Bedford near Penwood and moved one quarter mile southeast before ending near Route 30 east of Everett a distance of about 5 miles. Path width was approximately 50 yards with a damage width of 1/4 mile. Between 40 and 50 trees were damaged along a 1/4 mile section of Spring Street on the north side of Everett.
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:31 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
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The same day elsewhere
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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5571640.