Tornado, Franklin
- When
- July 19, 1:30 PM EST to 1:40 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin County, Waynesboro
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 39.750, -77.580
Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 19, 1996
m. EST in Waynesboro and moved east causing intermittent damage along a three mile path before ending near Midvale.
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 F1 tornado touched down around 1:30 p.m. EST in Waynesboro and moved east causing intermittent damage along a three mile path before ending near Midvale. The path width of 50 yards with damage width of 1/4 mile. Part of a factory roof was removed in Waynesboro, a section of barn roof was blown off east of town and many trees were downed along the 3 mile path. Corn also showed evidence of a suction vortex near the end of the path.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flash Flood in Kentucky, July 19, 1996
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 1996Warnings 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: 5571668.