Tornado, Oxford
- When
- October 1, 8:21 AM EST to 8:30 AM EST
- Where
- Oxford County, South Paris to 3 mi ENE of South Paris
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 44.250, -70.450
Tornado in Maine, October 1, 1998
A small tornado touched down 3 miles east-northeast of South Paris, just to the southeast of Streaked Mountain Road. The most severe damage occurred in a treed area between King Hill Road and Streaked Mountain Road.
Where it happened
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- Wind
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- 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 GYX wrote it up.
A small tornado touched down 3 miles east-northeast of South Paris, just to the southeast of Streaked Mountain Road. The most severe damage occurred in a treed area between King Hill Road and Streaked Mountain Road. A garage on Streaked Mountain Road was destroyed. The tornado also damaged the structural bracing of an old barn and the chimney of a home. A resident reported that a trampoline was lifted from his back yard and thrown like a frisbee over some nearby power lines and into a wooded area.
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:21 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Drought in Texas, October 1 to 31, 1998
- Drought in Virginia, October 1 to 31, 1998
- Drought in Virginia, October 1 to 31, 1998
- Strong Wind in New York, October 1, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Kansas, October 1, 1998
- High Wind and Strong Wind in Massachusetts, October 1, 1998
- High Wind in New York, October 1, 1998
- Drought in West Virginia, October 1 to 31, 1998
- Damaging Wind and High Wind in New York, October 1, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, October 1 to 2, 1998
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, October 1, 1998
- Strong Wind in New Hampshire, October 1, 1998
More
Every storm in Maine in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Maine, 1998Warnings in Maine, October 1998
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5676328.