Tornado in Pennsylvania, April 1, 1998

Name: Tornado in Pennsylvania, April 1, 1998
Start: 1998-04-01T12:40
End: 1998-04-01T12:45
Location: Pennsylvania

April 1, 1998 · 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), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:29 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Montour

When: April 1, 12:40 PM EST to 12:45 PM EST
Where: Montour County, Ottawa
Rating: F0
Path length: 2 mi
Path width: 1,200 yd
Coordinates: 41.030, -76.670

A small tornado touched down just north of the intersection of Route 44 and Route 54, about 3 miles east of Turbotville in Anthony Township. Damage extended east along a 2 mile path, just noorth of Route 44. Several farms sustained damage to barns and farm equipment. Three small barns were destroyed. A house was unroofed and a barn lost part of its roof. Siding and sheet metal roofing came to rest in the tops of trees.

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

Every storm in Pennsylvania in 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 1998 Warnings in Pennsylvania, April 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5633285.