Tornado in Pennsylvania, May 10, 2000

Name: Tornado in Pennsylvania, May 10, 2000
Start: 2000-05-10T15:45
End: 2000-05-10T15:50
Location: Pennsylvania

May 10, 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: 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.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Lancaster

When: May 10, 3:45 PM EST to 3:50 PM EST
Where: Lancaster County, 10 mi W of Strasburg
Rating: F0
Path length: 6 mi
Path width: 30 yd
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 39.983, -76.383

A small F0 tornado touched down at about 4:45 pm EDT in Lancaster County, south of Millersville, and west of Salisbury in Manor Township. The storm moved east along an intermittent path through West Lampeter Township, ending west of Strasburg. Two tobacco barns were shifted off their foundations in Manor Township along Route 999 west of Millersville. In addition, a number of trees had their tops blown off and at least 20 were uprooted in West Lampeter Township. A farmer reported seeing the funnel shaped cloud cross the area where the damage occurred.

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, May 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: 5149361.