Tornado, Bucks
- When
- September 11, 6:30 PM EST
- Where
- Bucks County, 1 mi NE of Silverdale
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 40.370, -75.250
Tornado in Pennsylvania, September 11, 1997
A weak (F0 on the Fujita Scale) tornado briefly touched down in Bucks County between Silverdale and Perkasie. It crossed Callowhill Road between South Perkasie Road and Pennsylvania State Route 113.
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
- $5,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
A weak (F0 on the Fujita Scale) tornado briefly touched down in Bucks County between Silverdale and Perkasie. It crossed Callowhill Road between South Perkasie Road and Pennsylvania State Route 113. Damage was minimal as it was on the ground for less than half a mile and passed over mainly open fields. Several homes did lose some shingles, the top of a well pump was blown from its base and a few trees and limbs were knocked down.
The radar
The Philadelphia radar (KDIX), 85 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:29 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
- Hail in North Carolina, September 11, 1997
- Tornado and Heavy Rain in New Jersey, September 11, 1997
- Hurricane in Guam, September 11 to 12, 1997
- Flash Flood in Idaho, September 11, 1997
- Flash Flood and Flood in Utah, September 11, 1997
- Heavy Rain in New Jersey, September 11, 1997
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 11, 1997
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Texas, September 11 to 23, 1997
- Heavy Rain in Pennsylvania, September 11, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Arizona, September 11, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Virginia, September 11, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, September 11, 1997
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 1997Warnings in Pennsylvania, September 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: 5620189.