Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 18, 1997

Name: Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 18, 1997
Start: 1997-07-18T15:35
End: 1997-07-18T15:40
Location: Pennsylvania

July 18, 1997 · 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: 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.

The radar

The State College radar (KCCX), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:36 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Clinton

When: July 18, 3:35 PM EST to 3:40 PM EST
Where: Clinton County, Woolrich to Mc Elhattan
Measured: 1
Rating: F1
Path length: 3.5 mi
Path width: 880 yd
Coordinates: 41.200, -77.380

41/12/07N, 77/24/14W to 41/10N, 77/22W. An F1 tornado touched down about 1 mile west of Woolrich on Friday, July 18th. The storm moved southeast along a 3-1/2 mile path crossing Crestmont into McElhattan. At the initial touchdown, just west of Woolrich, most of a roof was blown off a home. A nursery barn and a greenhouse were partially destroyed at Hillcrest Farms just west of Crestmont. Twelve homes were listed as having some damage related to winds or fallen trees and one barn was completely destroyed. Thousands of trees were downed by a combination of tornadic and downburst winds that extended southeast across the Susquehanna River into McElhattan and Pine Station. Hail also damaged some of the corn crop in the area.

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 1997 Every state in 1997 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 1997 Warnings in Pennsylvania, July 1997

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: 5615959.