Tornado in Pennsylvania, November 8, 1996

Name: Tornado in Pennsylvania, November 8, 1996
Start: 1996-11-08T09:45
End: 1996-11-08T10:00
Location: Pennsylvania

November 8, 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: $40,000
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), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 14:44 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Mifflin

When: November 8, 9:45 AM EST to 10:00 AM EST
Where: Mifflin County, Burnham
Rating: F1
Path length: 1 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Property damage: $40,000
Coordinates: 40.630, -77.570

An F1 tornado touched down in Burnham about 1/2 mile east of new route 322 in the Weis Mall parking lot. The tornado demolished the roof of a carwash and partially damaged the roof of the YMCA. Trees were also damaged along the ridge about 1 mile east of the initial touchdown. Several eyewitnesses reported seeing a dark swirling cloud, saw flying debris and reported a loud noise. There were no deaths or injuries.

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

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 1996 Every state in 1996 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 1996 Warnings in Pennsylvania, November 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5581654.