Tornado, Monroe
- When
- September 7, 11:45 AM EST to 11:50 AM EST
- Where
- Monroe County, Buck Hill Falls to Canadensis
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 41.220, -75.280
Tornado in Pennsylvania, September 7, 1998
m. EDT.
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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
An F1 tornado (classified as a weak tornado on the Fujita Scale) touched down just to the west of Buck Hill Falls in Barrett Township at 1245 p.m. EDT. The tornado touched down near Pennsylvania State Route 191 and proceeded east through Buck Hill Falls and lifted in Canadensis. The track length was 3.0 miles and the track width was 30 yards. Most of the damage was inflicted on the trees as hundreds were either damaged or uprooted. Six homes sustained minor damage, mainly from trees falling on them. No serious injuries were reported. SKYWARN spotters also reported that straight-line winds associated with the same thunderstorm knocked over a few other trees across the northern part of Monroe County. About 4,000 homes and businesses lost power in the Poconos.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tropical Storm in Texas, September 7 to 12, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in New York, September 7, 1998
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, September 7, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in New Jersey, September 7, 1998
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, September 7, 1998
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, September 7, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 7 to 26, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Pennsylvania, September 7, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, September 7, 1998
- Flash Flood and Hail in Pennsylvania, September 7 to 27, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, September 7, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, September 7, 1998
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 1998Warnings in Pennsylvania, September 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: 5673140.