ABUS34 KCTP 282111 PNSCTP PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA 500 PM EDT MON SEP 28 1998 ...F1 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP - UNION COUNTY... A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAMAGE SURVEY TEAM HAS CONFIRMED THAT A TORNADO OCCURRED IN WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP...4 MILES NORTHWEST OF THE TOWN OF NEW COLUMBIA...IN UNION COUNTY ON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27 1998. THE TORNADO WAS RATED AN F1. AN F1 TORNADO CONTAINS WINDS RANGING BETWEEN 73 AND 112 MPH. PEAK WINDS WITH THIS STORN WERE ESTIMATED TO BE 90 MPH. THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AT APPROXIMATELY 625 PM AND CAUSED A DAMAGE PATH ABOUT 2 1/2 (2.5) MILES LONG AND 1/4 (0.25) MILE WIDE IN WHITE DEER TOWNSHIP. THE TORNADO WAS EMBEDDED IN A LARGE AREA OF STRAIGHTLINE DOWNBURST WIND WHICH WAS ABOUT 8 MILES LONG... EXTENDING ROUGHLY PARALLEL AND JUST SOUTH OF INTERSTATE 80 FROM 8 MILES WEST OF NEW COLUMBIA EASTWARD INTO NEW COLUMBIA. THERE WERE NO INJURIES FROM THIS STORM BUT DAMAGE WAS REPORTED. ROOFS WERE PARTIALLY REMOVED FROM THREE BARNS AND A METAL SILO CAVED IN. SEVERAL SMALL SHEDS WERE BLOWN OVER AND ONE HOUSE RECEIVED DAMAGE FROM FALLING TREES. THOUSANDS OF TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN ALONG THE WHITE DEER PIKE JUST SOUTH OF I-80. RXR/DUNHAM NNNN
ABUS34 KCTP 282127 PNSCTP PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 530 PM EDT MON SEP 28 1998 ...F1 DOWNBURST IN NORTHERN CAMBRIA COUNTY... A NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DAMAGE SURVEY TEAM FOUND STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE ACROSS NORTHERN CAMBRIA COUNTY. THE SCATTERED DAMAGE SWATH COVERED AN AREA ABOUT ONE MILE WIDE BY SIX MILES LONG. THE TEAM FOUND DAMAGE FROM JUST EAST OF HASTINGS...THROUGH SAINT BONIFACE AND THOMAS MILLS AND INTO PATTON. THE DAMAGE WAS MINOR UNTIL PATTON. JUST SOUTHEAST OF PATTON EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TO TREES WAS FOUND AND MINOR DAMAGE TO THE ROOF OF A HOME. IT WAS IN THIS AREA THAT THE WIND PEAKED BETWEEN 70 AND 80 MPH. HEAD NNNN
ABUS34 KCTP 010300 PNSCTP PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 1055 PM EDT WED SEP 30 1998 ...MORE INFORMATION ON THE STORMS TO HIT CAMBRIA COUNTY ON SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 27TH... WHILE STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE OCCURRED JUST WEST OF PATTON...A SMALL TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AT 620 PM...NEAR PATTON...AND TRACKED EASTWARD FOR 7 MILES. THE STORM ENDED AROUND ST. AUGUSTINE. THE TORNADO WAS RATED A WEAK F1...WITH MOST OF THE DAMAGE BEING F0. MAXIMUM WINDS WERE BETWEEN 70 AND 85 MPH. PATH WIDTH WAS 100 YARDS WIDE. A 2100 GALLON WATER TANK WAS MOVED A QUARTER MILE. OVER A 100 TREES WERE BLOWN DOWN. DAMAGED TO A PHEASANT FARM OCCURRED. DUNHAM/MARTIN NNNN
