![]() ![]() Surveys in the Pittsburgh district Friday confirmed EF1 tornadoes in Jefferson County and in Warnock, each with speeds around 90 or 95 miles per hour, according to posts on the National Weather Service Pittsburgh Facebook page. Radar data in Pennsylvania on Thursday night indicated three twisters swirled near Mount Nebo and Hampton in Allegheny County and Buffalo Township in Washington County, forecasters said. To the west, a roof was ripped off a house in Wickliffe, where an EF1 tornado with winds reaching an estimated 97 miles per hour was confirmed to have touched down for about a minute around 4:50 p.m., according to NWS Cleveland. It traveled 2.9 miles and had a width of 50 yards. As it traveled east, it damaged a business along Wales Avenue NW. It initially touched down near North Park in Jackson, damaging trees, recreational buildings and a large garage. Six tornados touched down Thursday across northern Ohio. It traveled about 0.07 miles and was about 20 yards wide. “It dissipated east of Phillips Rice Road.”Ī brief EF-0 tornado touched down on Porter Drive, south of state Route 88 in Johnston, causing tree damage throughout the area during the one minute it last before lifting at 6:21 p.m.ĮF-0 tornados have average wind speeds of 65 to 85 mph. “Several trees were snapped and uprooted in the path,” Sefcovic said. It traveled 0.6 miles and had a maximum width of 50 yards. The tornado hit several residences on Griffith and Edgewater Drives, causing major damage to an attached garage. It lifted from the ground at about 6:18 p.m. near Mecca, just east of Mosquito Creek Lake, according to Zachary Sefcovic of the National Weather Service in Cleveland. Two tornados with top wind speeds between 80 to 104 mph touched down Thursday afternoon in Trumbull County, according to the National Weather Service in Cleveland. “Our neighbors banded together to help one another.” “One neighbor, and his son, came over to help clear my yard and stayed all day,” she said. On Friday, several neighbors stopped by to check on them. ![]() “The tornado apparently went over the top of my house,” she said. They sat in the dark for the remainder of the night. “I could hear the wind over us.”Ī few seconds later, all the power went off. “We don’t have a basement, so we ran to the bathtub and got in,” Hall said. ![]() Hall, who had not been monitoring the weather, looked outside and saw the sun still shining.Ī few moments later, when she looked outside for a third time, the winds had significantly picked up, and it was difficult for her to close her screen door. Kera Hall and her son, Donald, 7, were at their 5908 state Route 46 home, decorating his pumpkin, and talking on the phone with her mother, when her mother questioned if everything was OK. ![]()
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