Tornado, Lycoming
- When
- July 8, 1:05 PM EST to 1:10 PM EST
- Where
- Lycoming County, Loyalsockville
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.320, -76.920
Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 8, 1996
A small tornado touched down just north of Loyalsockville and moved southeast causing damage along a 1 mile path. Trees were snapped and uprooted.
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.
A small tornado touched down just north of Loyalsockville and moved southeast causing damage along a 1 mile path. Trees were snapped and uprooted. Skirting was blown off trailers and some windows were blown in at the Tiadaghton View Trailer Court on Back Street. A parsonage on Kaiser Hollow Road was severely damaged when two huge oak trees fell on the structure.
The radar
The State College radar (KCCX), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:03 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in New Jersey, July 8, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, July 8, 1996
- Tornado in Maine, July 8, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, July 8, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 8, 1996
- Hail in Maine, July 8, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 8, 1996
- Flood in Mississippi, July 8, 1996
- Flood in Mississippi, July 8, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 8, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 8, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Maryland, July 8, 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: 5571454.