Tornado in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1998

Name: Tornado in Pennsylvania, June 30, 1998
Start: 1998-06-30T15:05
End: 1998-06-30T15:15
Location: Pennsylvania

June 30, 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), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:05 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Cambria

When: June 30, 3:05 PM EST to 3:15 PM EST
Where: Cambria County, Vintondale to Nanty Glo
Rating: F0
Path length: 5 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 40.480, -78.900

A small F0 tornado embedded in a larger area of downburst tree damage extended from the community of Vintondale east along Route 271 to Nanty Glo. Width of the tornado damage was only about 50 yards, with downburst damage as wide as 1/2-mile in spots across the two towns. Eyewitnesses told of seeing a rotating funnel in both locations, and in Vintondale a man watched as his patio grill was lifted off the deck and spun over his roof. One home in Wintondale was significantly damaged when an uprooted tree toppled onto the structure. A fire chief in Nanty Glo described watching a rotating cloud from a high vantage point as the trees were downed on Lincoln Avenue.

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 1998 Every state in 1998 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 1998 Warnings in Pennsylvania, June 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: 5657313.