1985 Tornado outbreak Ohio, PA, and NY

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I was going to repy to the thread about the "Worst Thunderstorm you have ever been in" but I thought that this would be worth its own thread.


While tornadoes are rare in these parts they do happen. I was living in State College, Pa and a huge thunderstorm passed over us. There was lightning like I never saw before and it lasted for hours. Later I found out about the tornadoes. I drove about 30 miles to see the effects. An F-4 plowed through a state forest like a 1000-foot wide bulldozer. It shredded a fire tower into a long tangle of steel sphaghetti. This was tornado #24 on the link below.

http://www.ems.psu.edu/PA_Climatologist ... atorn.html

Another link:

http://www.weather.com/newscenter/speci ... /1985.html

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It also produced the worst tornado outbreak in Canadian history with two F4 tornadoes and 12 killed.