EF0 tornado, Northcraft, Pennsylvania, June 16, 2016

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

EF0

Date

June 16, 2016

Touchdown

3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)

Path length

0.1 miles (0.2 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$1,000

County

Fulton County

Touchdown point

39.740, -78.344

Lift-off point

39.740, -78.344

Record number

1606161335-01

3 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS CTP, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 93 mph.

• Wind damage sporadic. Winds estimated 75 to 85 mph...below expected DI. Trees were laying in different directions, indicating cyclonic winds.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

A Severe Thunderstorm spawned a brief EF-0 Tornado in southwest Fulton County during the afternoon of Thursday, June 16.

The National Weather Service in State College PA has confirmed a tornado near Barnes Gap in Fulton County Pennsylvania on June 16, 2016.||This was a small brief tornado that moved through a wooded area crossing Route 484 Buck Valley Road just northeast of Barnes Gap. Trees were snapped and uprooted in different directions indicating a cyclonic pattern.||Much greater damage occurred from a 3 mile wide swath over 5 miles long of scattered straightline wind damage and hail from this storm. The storm moved southeast through Inglesmith in Bedford County into the southwest corner of Fulton County. The hail laid down a thick carpet of leaves on the roadway. Hailstones were|reported to cover the ground with stones golfball to baseball in size near Inglesmith. Cars were dented and a windshield was smashed and some windows on homes and barns were broken. Peak winds were estimated at 80 mph.||There were no injuries or fatalities. ||Note:|Start Lat/Lon was 39.7397, -78.3438.|Ending Lat/Lon was 39.7390, -78.3420.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

30 minutes of warning. NWS CTP issued a tornado warning for this county at 19:05 UTC, 30 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 19:45 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 17:58 UTC and running to 22:18 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Enhanced Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 17:38 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Sterling radar (KLWX), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:34 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2016 tornado in PennsylvaniaEvery tornado in Pennsylvania since 1950Warnings in force in Pennsylvania nowThe forecast where you are

2 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.