Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 31, 2000

Name: Tornado in Pennsylvania, July 31, 2000
Start: 2000-07-31T12:30
End: 2000-07-31T12:35
Location: Pennsylvania

July 31, 2000 · NWS CTP · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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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.

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1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Somerset

When: July 31, 12:30 PM EST to 12:35 PM EST
Where: Somerset County, 5 mi W of Wittenberg
Rating: F0
Path length: 1 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 39.783, -79.033

This small F0 tornado touched down around 1:30 p.m. EDT near Hunsrick Summit, about 2 miles south of Meyersdale on Route 219. The storm slightly moved a mobile home on its foundation then, oddly enough, moved almost due west across Route 219 and down a ravine crossing a farm of a Weather Service Cooperative Observer. The farmer watched the funnel pick up a homemade raft from a farm pond and toss it several yards. Several dozen trees were blown down in the ravine, but no damage was done to a nearby barn. The storm continued west for about a mile before dissipating as it crossed the Casselman River.

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 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Pennsylvania, 2000 Warnings in Pennsylvania, July 2000

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: 5175862.