Tornado, Pendleton
- When
- June 27, 10:30 AM EST
- Where
- Pendleton County, 3 mi NW of Ruddle
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $8,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 38.750, -79.330
Tornado in West Virginia, June 27, 1998
A brief, small tornado whipped through a turkey farm, blowing a portion of the roof off of one turkey house, sucking the insulation out, and blowing two doors off their hinges. A portion of aluminum was found wrapped around a sycamore tree 35 feet from the house.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- $8,000
- 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 LWX wrote it up.
A brief, small tornado whipped through a turkey farm, blowing a portion of the roof off of one turkey house, sucking the insulation out, and blowing two doors off their hinges. A portion of aluminum was found wrapped around a sycamore tree 35 feet from the house. Approximately 50 turkeys were discovered outside a nearby poultry house after its screen door was lifted off the ground.
The radar
The Sterling radar (KLWX), 161 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 15:31 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
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 27 to 30, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in West Virginia, June 27 to 30, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Ohio, June 27 to 30, 1998
- Tornado in Ohio, June 27, 1998
- Flash Flood in New Hampshire, June 27, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Iowa, June 27 to 28, 1998
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Minnesota, June 27, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, June 27 to 30, 1998
- Flash Flooding and Flood in Wisconsin, June 27 to 28, 1998
- Heat in Tennessee, June 27, 1998
- Flash Flooding in Ohio, June 27 to 30, 1998
- Flash Flooding in West Virginia, June 27 to 30, 1998
More
Every storm in West Virginia in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for West Virginia, 1998Warnings in West Virginia, 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: 5658560.