Tornado, Chester
- When
- September 8, 6:10 PM EST
- Where
- Chester County, Chester Spgs
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 40.100, -75.620
Tornado in Pennsylvania, September 8, 1996
A tornado (F0 on the Fujita Scale) briefly touched down in Chester Springs on the west side of Pennsylvania State Route 113 paralleling Horseshoe Trail Road. The tornado touched down on Upland Farms and caused damage to about 30 acres.
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
A tornado (F0 on the Fujita Scale) briefly touched down in Chester Springs on the west side of Pennsylvania State Route 113 paralleling Horseshoe Trail Road. The tornado touched down on Upland Farms and caused damage to about 30 acres. The worst damage occurred to the trees on the farm. The tornado snapped the tops off of 40 to 60 trees. No serious structural damage or injuries occurred.
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:09 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5580600.