Tornado, Oxford
- When
- August 13, 10:30 PM EST to 10:45 PM EST
- Where
- Oxford County, Sweden
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 167 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 44.130, -70.820
Tornado in Maine, August 13, 1999
A late night tornado touched down just east of Little Pond in the town of Sweden at approximately 11:30 pm local time. The tornado crossed Knights Hill Road, passed near Black Mountain Cemetery, crossed Black Mountain Road, and ended near the top of Black Mountain.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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 late night tornado touched down just east of Little Pond in the town of Sweden at approximately 11:30 pm local time. The tornado crossed Knights Hill Road, passed near Black Mountain Cemetery, crossed Black Mountain Road, and ended near the top of Black Mountain. The damage path from the tornado was about a mile long and ranged in width from 100 to 900 ft. Hundreds of trees were either uprooted or snapped during the event. A home and a nearby utility shed were damaged from a falling tree.
The radar
The Portland,ME radar (KGYX), 52 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:30 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.
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The same day elsewhere
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More
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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: 5714490.