EF2 tornado, Oliveburg to Anita, Pennsylvania, June 14, 2026

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   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 mphthis tornado

   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, as surveyed

EF2, preliminary

Date

June 14, 2026

Touchdown

4:36 PM EDT (20:36 UTC)

Lifted

4:49 PM EDT (20:49 UTC)

On the ground

13 minutes

Path length

3.8 miles (6.0 km)

Path width

300 yards (274 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Jefferson County

Touchdown point

41.004, -79.013

Lift-off point

41.016, -78.947

Highest wind the damage implies

115 mph

Surveyed by

NWS PBZ

The office's name for it

Anita Tornado

Survey last edited

June 19, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

With the guidance of Jefferson County EMA, a survey team from NWS Pittsburgh evaluated damage from Sunday's storms in Jefferson County, PA. The team has confirmed that the damage observed was the result of a tornado.

Damage was first seen in a wooded area bounded by Nickles Road and London Road, mainly in the form of sporadic snapped limbs.

As the storm emerged from the wooded area, it snapped softwood trees at a farmstead near Burns and Anita Oliveburg Road.

The tornado weakened briefly as it progressed eastward, with intermittent damage to limbs along Anita Oliveburg Road and Blocks Rd, including one on a shed.

After crossing to Knox Dale Road, the tornadic circulation strengthened and grew in size, and damage became considerably more consistent and notable. Beginning here and continuing northeast toward Route 310, large swaths of healthy and sturdy hardwood and softwood trees were snapped and uprooted, most notably near Team Road and along an adjacent hillside. On this hillside was the most significant damage, where almost no tree was left intact. Despite the increase in intensity, damage to adjacent structures appeared limited, suggesting the gradient in wind speed across the tornadic circulation was sharp.

**NEW** Based on drone video and photography, wind speed along the segment of the path from Knox Dale Road along Team Road was estimated to be up to 115 mph. This tornado has been upgraded to EF2 strength.***

After descending the hill along Route 310 toward Shane Dr, the circulation weakened only slightly, and damage continued, consisting of snapped and uprooted trees. Also in this area, a home lost its carport and suffered light damage to siding and roof material. Here wind was most consistent with 90-100 mph speed.

***NEW***Damage to a barn and trees along Graffius Ave Ext was brought to the survey team's attention on Tuesday, enabling the survey team to extend the prior path over the hillside adjacent to Shane Dr.***

The most significant observed damage is consistent with EF2 wind speed (max wind 115 mph).

No tornadic damage was reported elsewhere across Jefferson County. Additional extensive searches for damage were conducted in the Ringgold area, and near Corsica, to no avail.

As of this update, the tornado's path is updated to 3.8 miles long, with a maximum width of 300 yd.

NWS Pittsburgh is grateful for the assistance of Jefferson County EMA, local township fire department personnel, and the public for their damage reports and aerial imagery that facilitated the completion of this survey.

Written by NWS PBZ in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

75 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS PBZ, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF2. The highest wind the damage implies is 115 mph.

• Rfd fall pattern on back side of tornado
• Center track here ? Tree arrangement favors circulation center here
• Threshold tree damage. Weaker and north of circulation track
• Will examine with drone to evaluate coverage of tree blowdown

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

Aided by a cold front and a shortwave, a strong line of thunderstorms developed in central Ohio and quickly progressed east across western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia. A moisture rich environment with mid to upper 60s dew points and mid 70s temperatures supported a favorable setup with MLCAPE values around 1000 J/kg and strong effective shear of 40-50 knots. Widespread swaths of wind damage were noted with 60-80 mph wind, and plenty of low level shear also supported embedded mesovortices and transient tornadoes within the line of thunderstorms.

NWS Storm Survey confirms an EF-2 tornado with max wind of 115 mph.

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

16 minutes of warning. NWS PBZ issued a tornado warning for this county at 20:20 UTC, 16 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 21:00 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 17:25 UTC and running to 21:41 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 Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 19:48 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 State College radar (KCCX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:38 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 2026 tornado in PennsylvaniaEvery tornado in Pennsylvania since 1950Warnings in force in Pennsylvania nowThe forecast where you are

15 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.