Tornado Reports
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| 16:40Z | EF0 | KPBZ | PA | Crawford | Mt Hope | A brief EF0 tornado with estimated maximum winds of 85 mph occurred six-miles northeast of Cochranton. This tornado began along Fowler Road, just northwest of PA-173. The tornado then tracked southeast across the intersection of those two roads before ending along Sugar Lake Road in Wayne Township. Numerous trees were uprooted, two barns had their roofs blown off, a semi was blown off PA-173, a detached garage was blown into a field and destroyed, a chimney toppled onto the roof of a home, and a corn field was flattened along the tornado's path. |
| 16:55Z | EF0 | KPBZ | PA | Venango | Thornburgh | An EF-0 tornado, that was partially observed by a personal home |surveillance camera and confirmed via damage survey, formed near |Billingsley Road and advanced into an open field before crossing |State Route 417 (near Speer's Public Golf Course) and quickly |dissipating. The tornado passed near a home, snapped about a |dozen pine trees, and then uprooted a shallow rooted hardwood |tree before dissipating. Maximum wind speed was estimated at 85 MPH. |
| 17:54Z | EF1 | KPBZ | PA | Fayette | White | Initial damage was noted on Bear Rocks Road near Grandview Road,|consisting of large branch snaps and uprooted trees consistent with|EF0 damage. The tornado then continued roughly along Grandview Road|towards Mount Zion Road with similar additional tree damage.||The tornado then crossed Mount Zion Church Road and gained strength,|causing minor damage to a roof and a deck. The tornado crossed a field|and snapped a few apple trees, and then caused minor damage to a barn.|Near this barn, a tree trunk was snapped, consistent with EF-1 wind|speed. ||The most intense damage was noted on Kessler School Road. A manufactured|shed was tossed on its side about 20 feet. Also, a manufactured garage|had partial wall collapse and a roof blown off, with the roof transported about 20 feet downwind. EF1 damage of 100 to 105 MPH (the maximum for the tornado) was assigned here. Additional tree damage occurred further down Kessler School Road to the intersection with Coffman Road. A storage building was tipped over on its side, but the roof was intact and the structure was sitting unattached on cinder blocks, consistent with 90 to 95 MPH EF0 wind. The tornado then crossed a hill, moving into Westmoreland County. |
| 18:00Z | EF1 | KPBZ | PA | Westmoreland | Roaring Run | After crossing the Fayette/Westmoreland County line, the tornado continued across a hill. It crossed County Line Road and Hellen School Road, and it possibly lifted briefly as no damage was noted during the survey in this area. The last noted damage occurred on Mountain View Road, with snapped tree branches and damage to a tin roof at Mountain View Acres. The tornado then dissipated in the woods along Mount Olive Road. Although the tornado was rated EF-1 based on damage in Fayette County, the maximum wind speed for the Westmoreland portion of the track was 60 to 70 MPH. |
| 18:25Z | EF1 | KPBZ | PA | Somerset | Bakersville | An EF-1 tornado impacted Laurel Hill State Park during the afternoon of July 29, 2021. The tornado had estimated peak winds of just over 100mph, a path length of just under a quarter of a mile, and a maximum path width of 65 yards. Numerous trees along it's path were uprooted in various directions, while a few were also snapped, resulting in damage to some of the conservation buildings. Estimated maximum winds reached 102 mph as the tornado tracked through this portion of the park, before turning to the east and producing additional tree damage east of Laurel Hill Park Drive. |
| 20:04Z | EF1 | KDIX | PA | Berks | Stony Run | A tornado touched down near Turkey Rd in Kempton, Albany Twp, Berks |County, PA, just west of the border with Lehigh County. About 15 |trees were uprooted in the area of Turkey Rd with a convergent |damage pattern noted in multiple nearby corn fields. The tornado then continued eastward into Lehigh County after only about one minute in Berks County. |
| 20:05Z | EF1 | KDIX | PA | Lehigh | Stines Corner | The tornado which began in western Albany Twp, Berks County, continued into Lehigh County. It tracked between between Kunkels Mill Rd and Red Rd near the far |southern tip of Lynn Twp. Mostly minor crop and |tree damage was observed in this area, but with a continued clear |convergent pattern. A resident on Red Rd filmed the tornado as it |passed to his south. The tornado passed through an open field before |crossing Rhoads Rd, where tree and minor roofing damage were |sustained. East of Rhoads Rd, a number of trees were snapped and |uprooted as the tornado approached New Smithville Rd. The tornado |crossed Golden Key Rd, uprooting a few more trees, before |dissipating in a field prior to reaching Loch Valley Rd in |Weisenberg Twp. The extent of tree damage both near the start of the |path in Berks County and in the New Smithville Rd area merited an EF1 |rating. |
| 20:25Z | EF1 | KDIX | PA | Lehigh | Emerald | This tornado initially caused considerable tree damage on |Welshtown Road and Skeet Club Lane including mutliple uprooted |hardwood trees. It continued on the grounds of Northern Lehigh |High School in Slatington. Several trees were snapped or uprooted |at the atletic fields of the high school, with most of the |snapping occurring high up in the trees. A wooden dugout on the |school's baseball field lost its roof, and some unanchored metal |bleachers were tossed. Damage was mostly blown in a similar west |to east direction, but there was some evidence of convergence |especially in tree damage in the area. In a neighborhood east of |the high school, a tree was snapped about one third of the way up |the trunk. At the Slatington Airport, an airplane hangar door was |blown out and there was tree damage on the airport property. |Damage became more unidirectional near the airport as the |circulation likely gusted out. Little if any damage occurred east |of the airport property, and that is where the tornado path is |estimated to have ended. |
| 20:50Z | EF2 | KPBZ | OH | Harrison | New Athens | The path of the tornado began just west of the town of New Athens |where the damage was mainly to soft and hardwood trees. Several |trees were uprooted or snapped. The tornado then continued over |the hill toward the town of New Athens. Several large trees were |uprooted and roof damage was observed on both sides of route 9/Main |Street in town.| |The most notable damage occurred in town just off of Culbertson |Drive and McFarland Road. Several trees were snapped low on the trunks |and additional large trees were uprooted. A home on Culbertson lost several |large sections of roof, with pieces found in a field 1.4 miles away. Pieces |of the roof were also found embedded in the ground just east of the home. It was in this area where|the tornado's maximum wind of 115 to 120 MPH was observed. On McFarland, more tree damage was observed. A small shed outside of a garage was demolished, with only the cement pad remaining and a power pole was snapped at the base. ||The path continued down the hill from McFarland along route 519 where |additional power poles were snapped and numerous trees were snapped/uprooted. |Damage was then observed above the next hill on the south side of route 519 southeast |of Ridge Creek Lodge, where beyond a field a grove of hardwoods were snapped or uprooted.|Video footage from this vantage point notes that the tornado did lift a couple of times but |further tree damage was noted on the eastern side of Ross Run before the tornado dissipated. |
| 20:59Z | EF2 | KPBZ | OH | Carroll | Watheys | A ground and aerial drone survey confirmed two distinct and |adjacent tornadoes, which were spawned from a supercell |thunderstorm that tracked southeast across Washington and Lee |Townships in Carroll County, Ohio...and then into Springfield and |Ross Townships in Jefferson County, Ohio. These findings are |consistent with two hook echoes/rotational couplets on NWS Doppler|Radar in Pittsburgh.||This section outlines the first tornado track across Carroll |County. The tornado touched down at approximately 4:59pm along |Channel Rd NE and Cobbler Rd, where damage to a farm residence, |wood-framed metal roof shed, and crops were observed. Some damage |indicators included flattening of corn, blown-out windows, and a |wind-toppled chimney.||Several trees were blown down along Parma Rd, as the tornado |continued to the south-southeast.||The tornado then proceeded over rural, hilly woodland west of |Cinder Road (aka CR67). To further inspect glimpses of embedded |tree damage, a drone was launched from a gas well access road, and|discovered a long, continuous path of extensive tree damage. A |several hundred yard section along one of the hill peaks was |nearly completely deforested with hundreds of large trees |completely snapped and uprooted. An EF-2 rating was assigned to |this area, with a maximum estimated wind of 120 MPH.||The tornado continued downhill toward the gas well site, with the|last tree damage observed just prior to reaching Bay Rd. As this |tornado rapidly dissipated, a second tornado formed approximately |1 mile to the east-southeast. |
| 21:07Z | EF0 | KLWX | MD | Howard | Guilford | A brief EF0 tornado touched down at the Snowden Square shopping mall. Damage was limited to a quarter-mile path, and peak wind gusts were estimated to have been around 70 mph.||Initial tree damage was noted in front of the Goodwill store where two ornamental trees were snapped at their base. Small branch and leaf litter was noted as the tornado passed over the open parking lot towards a BJs store. As the tornado passed over a BJ`s store and tire center, a section of the wall facade, estimated about 50 feet by 20 feet, was removed. The affected wall was on the opposite side from the direction of storm motion. An employee at the tire center noted that nearby shopping carts were lofted and then rapidly blown to the north. The store manager noted the time of the incident from a video taken in the store shortly after it happened. That time matched the time that a tight tornadic circulation with hook echo was noted right over the shopping center by the nearby TBWI terminal doppler weather radar. TBWI|radar had a good view of the event, and was just 10 miles away and sampling only 600 feet off the ground over the shopping center.||Final damage was noted to two more mid-sized trees at the end of Snowden Square Drive. Large branches were snapped off and thrown in multiple directions, north to southeast. Trash and debris was also noted to have been blown to the southeast into an adjacent field. No further damage was noted past this point. |
| 21:15Z | EF1 | KPBZ | OH | Jefferson | Bergholz | A ground and aerial drone survey confirmed that a second tornado |formed approximately on the Carroll and Jefferson County line, a |little over two miles north-northwest of Bergholz, Ohio. It is |possible that this second tornado formed inside Carroll County, |but could not be confirmed due to limited access. ||Damage from this tornado was exclusively to trees, although a |residence at the intersection of TR263 and Valleyview Dr suffered |minor exterior damage caused from falling limbs and powerlines. |Drone footage from a densely wooded area northwest of Bergholz |indicated scattered to occasionally numerous downed trees which |were uprooted, snapped and splintered along a focused and |convergent path. Tree damage became more sporadic as the tornado |finally dissipated across the extreme southwest portion of |Bergholz along Washington St.||Given the coverage and damage that occurred to both hard and |softwood trees along the damage path, a higher end EF-1 rating is |assigned to this tornado, with a maximum wind speed of 105 MPH. |
| 21:16Z | EF0 | KRLX | OH | Washington | Macksburg | A brief tornado touched down just south of Macksburg near the Interstate 77 corridor. This was confirmed by video evidence and an on-site survey. The damage was confined to the intersection of Highland Ridge Road and Cats Creek Road, adjacent to Interstate 77 Southbound. The tornado caused damage to a few hardwood and softwood trees. The damage consisted of some downed large softwood limbs along with a pine tree that was uprooted next to a mobile home. No structural damage was observed. |
| 21:20Z | EF0 | KILN | OH | Pickaway | New Holland | Based on aerial footage and photos, the tornado appeared to have initially touched down in a field just northwest of Dick Road. It then crossed Dick Road and produced damage on a farm. Some roof damage was noted on a single story residence on Dick Road, while a large outbuilding was also destroyed. Aerial footage confirmed evidence of the tornado in the grass and field between Dick Road and Mouser Road. Debris from the outbuilding was also scattered throughout the field between Dick Road and Mouser Road. Additional damage occurred on a property on Mouser Road, where two barns were completely destroyed. The tornado is believed to have then lifted shortly after it destroyed the barns. While the tornado ended before reaching U.S. 22, debris from the destroyed Mouser Road barns was thrown about one quarter of a mile and was noted on the other side of U.S. 22.||Based on the evaluation of the damage, winds associated with this brief tornado were around 85 mph. |
| 21:20Z | EF0 | KPBZ | PA | Indiana | Indiana Co Arpt | An EF-0 tornado, that was observed by live video and confirmed via damage |survey, began in a cornfield near Geesey Road, crossed a farmers property, |and dissipated at the end of the property. Minor crop damage was noted|near Geesey Road where the tornado began. The tornado then tracked |east-southeast where it struck the side of a barn and tossed portions |of the roofing and siding 100 feet away from the structure. Finally, |some damage was noted on the side of a open barn shed where a 2x4 struck a |metal side of a structure. Maximum wind speed was estimated at 75 MPH. |
| 21:34Z | EF0 | KCCX | PA | Lebanon | Greble | An EF-0 tornado touched down near the village of Greble to the northwest of Myerstown during the early evening of July 29, 2021. The tornado had estimated peak winds of 80 mph, a path length of just under a three quarters of a mile, and a maximum path width of 60 yards. The tornado touched down near Houtztown Road and traveled southeastward before ending near Kutztown Road. A children`s playset was knocked over, along with a few trees being uprooted following a metal gate being destroyed. A portable toilet was thrown about 40 feet right before a row of corn was flattened, clearly showing a convergent wind pattern. Farther southeast, a vehicle was displaced a few feet within a junk yard, prior to the tornado shredding some leaves before lifting just before reaching Kutztown Road. |
| 21:40Z | EF1 | KDIX | PA | Bucks | Wismer | Tree damage began in the area of Bradshaw Rd in Plumstead Twp in |Bucks County, where a few sizable limbs were downed and a couple |of larger but weakened trees were snapped. The tornado then |entered a cornfield near the intersection of Ferry Rd and Point |Pleasant Pike. Some degree of convergence was noted in a narrow |path of downed corn, though it was not overly strong. In addition,|some trees adjacent to and southeast of the cornfield were also |damaged. The damage became more substantial with a clearer |rotation signature observed in the area of Ridgeview Dr, where a |number of trees were snapped, favoring higher elevation areas |along a ridge line. The snapping and shearing of trees in that |area and the nature of the debris field strongly indicated |tornadic damage, with the magnitude of damage meriting an EF1 |rating. The tornado continued southeastward through Carversville |Rd and to the area of Long Ln in Buckingham Twp. Several |residences along and near Long Ln sustained tree damage. The |tornado impacted Maximuck's Farm Market on Long Ln, where |greenhouses sustained roof damage and some uplift of their frames.|Some convergence was also noted in crop fields on the property. |Just southeast of the greenhouses, a barn on the property was |heavily damaged with a partial collapse of its walls. However, |just beyond the barn, a large stretch of cornfields and a tree |line beyond the cornfields were left untouched, indicating the |tornado lifted near the damaged barn. |
| 21:45Z | EF1 | KPBZ | OH | Jefferson | Reeds Mills | An EF-1 tornado, observed by photograph and confirmed via damage |survey, began near Highway 22 immediately to the northwest of |Wintersville, Ohio. Tree and minor roof damage were first observed|along Caravel Place and Harmony Drive.||The tornado continued southeast through the west side of |Wintersville, producing damage to numerous properties along Bantam|Ridge Road, while becoming stronger and wider. Moderate damage |was sustained to a single-family residence at the corner of Murphy|Rd. A complete loss of an attached garage, partial loss of the |roof, and extensive damage to fencing and trees were also |observed. In addition, a 2x4 was found pierced through a church |exterior wall two properties south, and signage from the church |was found upstream on the residential property. ||Approximately one half mile to the southeast, a second single- |family residence was found to have suffered partial roof loss from|uplifting, in addition to having numerous soft and hard-wood |trees snapped or uprooted. Metal roofing from the aformentioned |property was found deposited on this property as well. An exterior|shed was also overturned. The maximum damage rating for this |tornado was assigned at this location, with a wind speed of 95 MPH estimated.||Scattered damage to trees, either uprooted or with large branches|snapped, continued approximately one mile to the southeast, along|with minor roof shingle damage. The tornado appears to have |dissipated prior to intersecting Fernwood Rd., and is consistent |with radar signatures. |
| 21:54Z | EF0 | KDIX | NJ | Essex | Glen Ridge | Brief EF0 Tornado confirmed by NWS Storm Survey. Tornado likely touched down inside the Montclair Golf Club and traveled northeast. Three full trees and 10 to 20 large limbs were felled. One tree knocked house off foundation at 22 Sylvan Road with home likely totaled as per Essex County Emergency Management. Also a large tree fell on a house on Park Avenue. Total storm damage estimated to be 330 K, with 300 K estimated for the totaling of the 22 Sylvan Road home. |
| 21:59Z | EF2 | KDIX | PA | Bucks | New Hope | The supercell storm which produced a tornado in Plumstead Twp in Bucks County|cycled and produced another tornado beginning in New Hope in |Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Tree damage began near River Rd just |west of the Delaware River, with a portion of River Rd closed and |impassable due to downed trees. The tornado then began to cross the Delaware River enroute to Mercer County, New Jersey. |
| 22:00Z | EF1 | KPBZ | PA | Greene | Crabapple | An EF-1 tornado damaged a rural portion of extreme western Greene|County during the early evening of July 29th. The affected area |was just south of State Gamelands No. 302, in a region of |rough terrain characterized by dense wooded areas, mixed with open|farm land and gas well production infrastructure.||Damage from this tornado was confined to mainly hardwood trees in|the wooded areas. The tornado snapped a number of small trees, |uprooted several larger ones, and downed numerous large branches |over the course of its nearly 3 mile track. The initial damage |occurred at the bridge crossing Enlow Fork on the Pennsylvania |side of the MarkWest Majorsville Station. As the storm tracked to |the southeast, it reached peak intensity along Day Road, where |considerable tree damage was noted from an adjacent hill, |extending down into a deep ravine. Several large trees were |uprooted along with many smaller ones snapped. The tornado's maximum wind speed of 105 MPH was estimated in this area. Sporadic tree damage was noted as the tornado moved southeast and crossed Fry Hill Road, Scott Hill Road, and finally along the southern spur of |Day Road once again (just southeast of the Veterans Road fork).||This is the eighth documented tornado to impact Greene County |since 1950, and is the first since October 2nd 2018. In addition, |this marks the 8th tornado confirmed within the NWS Pittsburgh |forecast area from the July 29th outbreak, the most in a single |event since May 1st 2017, when seven tornadoes were recorded|over northwest Pennsylvania. |
| 22:01Z | EF2 | KDIX | NJ | Mercer | Titusville | The tornado which began in New Hope, Pennsylvania crossed the Delaware |River and entered Mercer County, New Jersey, in the area of |Washington Crossing. Multiple reports of residential tree damage |were received from Washington Crossing, and the survey team |observed tree damage along River Rd on the New Jersey side of the |Delaware River. From there the tornado continued southeast and |crossed Pleasant Valley Rd. The first indications of EF2 damage |came on that road, with numerous large hardwood and softwood trees|snapped, sheared, and/or uprooted. The tornado continued |southeastward and crossed through Baldpate Mountain. Continued |heavy tree damage was observed in this area. An access road to the|top of the mountain was barely passable when the survey team |reached it in late afternoon, after many hours of tree clearing |work by local parks officials and private companies. Hundreds of |trees were snapped or damaged on this mountain. Damage continued |down the mountain through Fiddlers Creek Rd and Church Rd. The |tornado path then crossed Washington Crossing State Park. Further |damage was observed just southeast along Bear Tavern Rd. In fact, |some of the largest downed trees were observed in this area. |However, by this point damage became increasingly unidirectional |as the storm's rear flank downdraft likely wrapped around the |tornadic circulation. Sufficient evidence of tornadic winds still |existed in the Bear Tavern Rd area, but it is estimated the |tornado lifted soon after, shortly before entering much more |densely populated areas near the Trenton Mercer Airport. |
| 22:10Z | EF0 | KCCX | PA | Cambria | Nanty Glo | An EF-0 tornado touched down near Nanty Glo during the early evening of July 29, 2021. The tornado had maximum winds near 70 mph, a path length of 350 feet and a maximum path width of 15 yards. Touch down occurred on the western side of the Blacklick Valley High School football field and the tornado moved southeastward across the field before lifting on the eastern side of the football field. The tornado displaced small bleachers and knocked over a portable toilet. A few trees around the football field were snapped as well. |
| 22:40Z | EF0 | KVWX | IL | Cumberland | Greenup | A tornado touched down about 3.4 miles east-northeast of Greenup just south of I-70 at 5:40 PM CDT. The tornado tracked south-southeastward, eventually crossing U.S. 40 near the intersection of County Road 1975 East. Minor crop damage occurred before the tornado dissipated at 5:43 PM CDT. |
| 22:56Z | EF1 | KDIX | NJ | Mercer | Robbinsville Arpt | The Windsor-Robbinsville Township tornado began on Route 130 just|south of the town of Windsor near the Assunpink Creek. A few |hardwood trees were uprooted along the highway near the Chestnut |Montessori. The building lost a portion of its roofing material |and several other hardwood trees were uprooted or snapped just |behind the property into a small wooded area. The tornado then |continued in a somewhat transient and weak manner through a series|of fields and tree lines. A few large tree branches were snapped |off near a farm home on Windsor Road and a hardwood tree in a tree|line was uprooted across the street. The sporadic tree damage |continued along Perrineville Road where a large section of a tree |was snapped off at another residence. The tornado then produced an|area of intense convergent tree damage near the intersection of |Perrineville Road and Voelbel Road where numerous trees were |snapped or uprooted. The tornado ended just downstream from this |intersection at a residence on Perrineville Road where a final |tree was uprooted. Despite its short path length, the tornado was on the ground for nearly 10 minutes, and radar data corroborates its motion as being much slower than other tornadoes on this day. |
| 23:04Z | EF3 | KDIX | PA | Philadelphia | Byberry | An EF3 tornado better known for its impacts it Bucks County, PA began briefly in Philadelphia County, PA. The tornado touched down near Southampton Road, Kelvin Avenue, and Trevose Road where it uprooted and blew down large limbs from a |few softwood and hardwood trees. The tornado then moved into Bucks County, with trees uprooted at the county line. |
| 23:06Z | EF3 | KDIX | PA | Bucks | Belmont Hills | The tornado which began in Philadelphia County crossed into Bucks County, where it would produce the majority of its impacts. After crossing the county line, the tornado continued between Trevose Road and Peyton Street |where additional tree damage occurred before crossing Lukens |Street. The tornado then very briefly crossed back into |Philadelphia County at the northern tip of Poquessing Valley Park |where a few trees were uprooted. The tornado then crossed back |into Trevose in Bucks County where it caused some minor cosmetic |damage to some homes in the Beechwood Estates neighborhood and |blew down several sections of vinyl fencing. Several small trees |were also snapped or uprooted in and just south and east of the |residential neighborhood.||As the tornado approached Somerton Road, it began intensifying |and widening substantially as it moved into the Metropolitan |Industrial Center. Numerous softwood and hardwood trees were |snapped or uprooted in the SUEZ Water Company property southwest |of and along Somerton Road. Five wooden power poles were snapped |near the ground along Somerton Road as well at the northern end of|the SUEZ property. All seven warehouse buildings in the |industrial complex northeast of Somerton Road sustained at least |minor damage, with the most significant occurring to the Northtec |building. Numerous roof mounted HVAC units were shifted or blown |off of a few of the buildings in the industrial complex. Open bay |doors in the western- most building caused a non-load bearing |interior wall to collapse. A sedan was lifted and flipped over in |the Northtec parking lot and a steel flag pole bearing a flag |flattened completely to the ground. The Northtec building |sustained substantial structural damage where large sections of |roofing material were removed. Additionally, numerous exterior |paneling was blown off, garage bay doors were blown out, a few |windows were blown out, and at least two large HVAC units were |blown off of the building. Numerous softwood and hardwood trees |were uprooted or snapped in the industrial complex and immediately|adjacent areas.||A cellphone tower adjacent to the industrial complex had all of |the antennas blown off, but the tower itself did not collapse. |Southeast of the industrial complex, minor cosmetic damage |occurred to some homes along Carter Road in a residential |neighborhood. Tree damage associated with the tornado occurred |along Carter Road and Sussex Road north of Buckfield Terrace. This|was the area where the tornado circulation reached its widest |extent of around three tenths of a mile. As the tornado neared and|crossed the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I- 276), an overhead roadway |information sign was blown off and a portion of it landed |downstream nearly a half mile away. Just north of the turnpike, |minor cosmetic damage occurred to a hotel building where a tree |was also uprooted in the parking lot. A large billboard was blown |over just north of the turnpike and south of Street Road. A small |utility building nearby had its roof blown off. The northern- most|extent of the damage occurred on the Toscana 52 restaurant |property where the tornado blew down some chain link fencing and |uprooted a few small trees in the parking lot.||The tornado continued east-northeastward across Street Road |toward the Faulkner car dealership complex where it began |intensifying and somewhat narrowing its path of damage. The four |dealership showrooms sustained significant damage where most |windows were blown out and at least some roofing material was |blown off. The most significant damage occurred to the Buick/GMC |showroom where most of the roofing material was blown off, all |windows and doors were blown out, and exterior walls exhibited |fracturing due to stress from the wind. Roof HVAC units of this |building were tossed into the parking lot behind the building. All|of the dealership signs near the main road were destroyed. Scores|of new and used vehicles sustained significant damage from flying|debris or from being pushed or tossed trough the air.||The tornado continued toward the dealership's main service garage|where the most significant damage occurred. The southwestern |portion of the building was destroyed with most exterior walls |collapsing completely and all roofing material blown off. Interior|walls mostly remained standing. Roof HVAC units were tossed off |of the building with one unit landing nearly 200 yards downstream |of the building. Damage sustained to the building decreased |somewhat toward the eastern end of it where portions of the |exterior walls were damaged and almost all garage bay doors were |blown out. The wind rushing through the garage area carried |debris, car parts, and tools well away from the structure |downstream. Some vehicles near the main garage building were |completely destroyed from large pieces of flying debris or from |being tossed and dropped back onto the ground. A small pickup |truck was crushed from a collapsed exterior wall. Five people |reportedly sustained minor injuries at the dealership complex.||The tornado continued east-northeast toward the Weisser Homes |mobile home park and into an area of trees which sustained |significant damage. Most tree canopies and limbs were completely |stripped from the still standing or snapped trunks of hardwood |trees in this area. A large storage container filled with car |parts from the service garage parking lot upstream was lofted into|the air and dropped into this area of trees. An uninhabited |mobile home model was lifted and completely destroyed at the |mobile home park. Another double-wide mobile home had a large |portion of its roof blown off. Several other mobile home sustained|varying degrees of damage as well. A large amount of various |debris from the dealership complex landed in this mobile home |park. Numerous softwood and hardwood trees near and just |downstream of this area were snapped or uprooted along Old Lincoln|Highway.||At this stage, the tornado damage path narrowed considerably and |intensity weakened significantly as it crossed Old Lincoln Highway|and moved toward the Lowe's and Walmart shopping centers on Route|1. The tornado passed over these shopping centers, but no |structural damage was noted to these structures. Numerous small |trees were snapped and uprooted in the large parking lot area and |line of trees just north of the Bensalem turnpike interchange. |Some exit ramp signs were blown down in the interchange area.||The tornado damage became somewhat discontinuous as it continued |east-southeast into Bensalem across Route 1 and toward a |residential neighborhood. Several homes in the neighborhood |sustained loss of some roofing material and other cosmetic damage |in addition to some tree damage. The tornado continued across |Rockhill Road and along Richlieu Road toward the Christian Life |Center where several trees were snapped or uprooted. The church's |steeple had some paneling blown off, but the steeple itself was |not damaged otherwise. The tornado continued weakening as it |crossed Galloway Road then dissipated in the Bensalem Township |Community Park where some minor tree damage occurred.||No known serious injuries or fatalities occurred from this |tornado. |
| 23:07Z | EF0 | KDIX | PA | Philadelphia | Bustleton | A brief tornado occurred in the Bustleton section of Northeast |Philadelphia. Damage was first observed near Grant Ave at the |Grant Gardens apartment complex, where some minor loss of roofing|material was noted and debris was tossed in a chaotic manner |consistent with tornadic winds. The tornado moved east-southeast |across Roosevelt Blvd. Continued minor structural damage was noted|along a narrow path, mainly consisting of sporadic losses of |siding and insulation. Minor tree damage was also noted. One |building also had ceiling tiles pulled downward with insulation |removed in a car park area, a strong indicator of tornadic |pressure gradient forces. Near Blue Glass Rd, a couple of slightly|larger trees had their trunks snapped, and winds of around 80 mph|likely occurred in that area. The damage path ended near there, |however, after a track length of only around half a mile. Radar |data indicates this was an anticyclonic tornado. |
| 23:58Z | EF1 | KIND | IN | Shelby | Prescott | Damage from this event began as a strong rear flank downdraft ripped the roof off a building in the southeast part of Shelbyville. Witnesses reported a funnel cloud nearby but damage was consistent with straight line winds. Witnesses reported that the funnel cloud continued southeast until it became a tornado northwest of a small subdivision off of CR 250 E. There it damaged numerous trees and damaged support beams on a porch. A masonry wall was also knocked down. The tornado continued to the southeast where it caused tree damage to a home on County Road 350 South. The most extensive tree damage would occur along County Road 375 East near County Road 500 South where two homes had widespread tree damage along with an antenna pole that was snapped. The tornado then lifted in a field to the southeast. Damage was not continuous along the tornado path, indicating the tornado did lift briefly at times. |
| 00:04Z | EF0 | KDIX | NJ | Ocean | Archers Corner | The tornado touched down east of Hawkin Road near the intersection |of Bordens Mill Branch and Success Branch in Jackson Township. The |entire life cycle of this tornado was within a large wooded area |between Success Lake and the Lakehurst Naval Air Field. Based on |aerial images, the damage was limited to some snapped and uprooted |trees. The tornado occurred about 7 miles north of the Fort Dix |Doppler Radar (KDIX), which showed a well defined velocity couplet |along with a Tornado Debris Signature (TDS) in the Correlation |Coefficient data. The radar data showed the circulation was short-|lived as it moved eastward across the extensive wooded area |southwest of Success Lake. Based on the aerial images, this tornado |was rated an EF-0 with estimated peak winds up to 80 mph given the |damage to numerous softwood trees.||The National Weather Service would like to thank the New Jersey |Civil Air Patrol (CAP) for their extensive assistance by flying |aerial surveys to find damage produced by this tornado. |
| 00:14Z | EF1 | KIND | IN | Shelby | Waldron | The second tornado of the day was short lived. The tornado initially began near a river cabin and caused a narrow but intense swath of tree damage along County Road 500 East. The tornado then crossed the Flatrock River where it impacted the Van Pelt cemetery. Several grave stones were knocked over by the tornado with additional tree damage on the property. The tornado may have briefly lifted before occurring again in a field to the south then dissipating. |
| 00:20Z | EF1 | KVWX | IL | Crawford | Morea | A tornado touched down 3.8 miles south of Palestine at 7:20 PM CDT. The tornado tracked south-southeastward along IL-33 knocking multiple power lines down. A piece of sheet metal was torn off a building and thrown over a power line as well. The tornado quickly dissipated about 4.2 miles south of Palestine at 7:22 PM CDT. |
| 00:42Z | EF1 | KDIX | NJ | Burlington | Chatsworth | A tornado touched down on the evening of July 29 in a heavily |forested area in the eastern portion of Woodland Twp in southern |New Jersey. The start location is estimated to be between |Stevenson Rd, where survey crews found no damage, and Whiting Rd |about a mile and a half away, where tree damage was observed. The |estimate, also aided by radar, places the start just west of the |border of Burlington and Ocean Counties, though no damage was directly observed in Burlington County due to accessibility issues. After touching down, the |tornado moved in an east-northeasterly direction and quickly crossed the Ocean County border. |
| 00:43Z | EF1 | KDIX | NJ | Ocean | Cedar Bridge | The tornado estimated to have touched down in the New Jersey pine barrens over Burlington County moved into Ocean County, where damage was first observed. The bulk of the damage consisted of large snapped and uprooted pine and spruce |trees with a few red maple trees. Some of the heaviest damage occurred on Old|Cedar Bridge Rd near the Cedar Bridge Tavern Historic Site. The |tornado crossed Route 72 before moving through over a mile of |inaccessible forest land. Tree damage was found again along Jones |Rd. From there the tornado moved into the Wells Mills area where |the path of tree damage continued. A number of snapped trees and |large limbs were found in the area of Wells Mills County Park. The|tornado path appeared to end a few hundred yards east of this |location. The degree of tree damage along the middle portion of |the track was consistent with a higher end EF1 tornado. |
| 01:03Z | EF2 | KDIX | NJ | Ocean | Barnegat | The same supercell which produced a tornado in the New Jersey |Pine Barrens cycled and produced another tornado in far eastern |Ocean County. The tornado touched down near the immediate western |shore of Barnegat Bay. At least one building near Bay Beach off |Bayshore Dr sustained roofing damage. The tornado then moved over |Barnegat Bay as a waterspout. It came ashore in the area of High |Bar Harbor in Long Beach Twp.||The most severe damage was noted to a house on the corner of |Antioch Rd and Arnold Blvd. This house was facing west-southwest, |and had its entire roof structure lifted off and tossed one to two|houses to the east. The house walls remained standing but most of|the doors and windows on the east and west sides of the house |were completely blown out, with significant damage to the inside |of the house. A two- by-four from an adjacent house impaled the |wall on the west side of the house. Eight people were in the house|at the time the tornado hit, but they were able to take shelter |in an interior closet, with only minor injuries sustained. In |addition, on the north side of the house, a car in the driveway |was pushed sideways several feet and their boat flipped into their|neighbor's boat. The boat's trailer was tossed about 50 feet into|a house just to the east. The degree and orientation of damage |was consistent with tornadic winds of 115 to 120 mph, which is EF2|intensity.||Continuing east-northeast, about a dozen homes on the south side |of Arnold Blvd sustained significant uplift of roof material, |siding damage or removal, collapse of porch, patio, and sunroom |structures, and blown out windows. Several large trees were |uprooted and lay pointing to the east-northeast, as well as downed|power poles. ||The tornado moved east or slightly north of east from Arnold |Blvd, over an open salt marsh, before intersecting a few houses on|the corner of Collier Rd and Sunset Blvd. The most significant |damage was to a house on the northwest corner of Collier and |Sunset, which sustained siding damage, partial roof removal, |blowout of the storm surge walls on the basement level of the |elevated structure, and a large tree uprooted and laying to the |east-northeast. Power poles and large trees were downed on Sunset |Blvd, adjacent to the High Bar Harbor Yacht Club. There was damage|to several boats in the yacht club marina, but this was mainly |due to lofted debris being tossed into the marina. The circulation|then moved into the cove east of the marina. However, no further |significant damage was noted on the east side of the cover in |Barnegat Light, indicating the tornado had likely lifted. This is |corroborated by radar data which showed a weakening of the |circulation and a likely dissipation before it crossed into the |open Atlantic. |
Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).