Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 18, 1997

Name: Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 18, 1997
Start: 1997-07-18T16:15
End: 1997-07-18T16:17
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), 94 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:17 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Union

When: July 18, 4:15 PM EST to 4:17 PM EST
Where: Union County, Lewisburg
Measured: 1
Rating: F0
Path length: 2.3 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Coordinates: 40.950, -76.880

40/57/53N, 76/53/31W to 40/57/43N, 76/51/14W. An F0 tornado touched down and crossed Route 15 just a mile north of Lewisburg in Union County. The storm moved southeast across the Susquehanna River crossing Route 45 before lifting a mile south of East Lewisburg in Northumberland County. A number of trees were blown down along the path. A branch from a tree was blown and embedded into the side of a mobile home. Law enforcement officials in Montandon reported sighting a funnel cloud to the west that was obscured by trees.Part of a roof was blown off a house and trees were damaged on the west side of Lewisburg from downburst winds related to the storm.

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: 5616060.