Tornado in Pennsylvania, March 3, 1999

Name: Tornado in Pennsylvania, March 3, 1999
Start: 1999-03-03T20:30
End: 1999-03-03T20:35
Location: Pennsylvania

March 3, 1999 · 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: $25,000
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.

The radar

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:29 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Adams

When: March 3, 8:30 PM EST to 8:35 PM EST
Where: Adams County, Heidlersburg to 2 mi NE of Heidlersburg
Rating: F0
Path length: 5 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Property damage: $25,000
Reported by: AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Coordinates: 39.970, -77.120

A small F0 tornado touched down in the community of Lake Meade northeast of Heidlersburg. Trees were blown down and boats were overturned along the north of Lake Meade. A few houses were damaged by falling trees. The tornado traveled behind the Lake Meade maintenance building and across Lake Meade Road, disappearing into the woods north of the road. A number of trees were damaged or uprooted along Mud Creek.

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 1999 Every state in 1999 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 1999 Warnings in Pennsylvania, March 1999

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: 5682220.