PENNSYLVANIA, USA — More than 230 tornadoes touched down in our viewing area in the last 74 years and left eight people dead, 122 wounded and, accounting for inflation, caused nearly half of a billion dollars in estimated damage, data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows.
Most of those years were relatively quiet. A few were devastating.
Eight twisters ripped through central Pennsylvania in the spring of 1985, killing six and wounding 60. Thirteen years later, an F-3 tornado touched down at Lake Carey in Wyoming County. Two people died and 15 others were wounded.
With this season’s first two tornadoes confirmed Tuesday by the National Weather Service in Wayne and Schuylkill Counties, Newswatch 16 mapped out more than 1,000 of Pennsylvania’s confirmed twisters from over the years. The station’s mapping project included key details about many of the storms, including reports from NOAA on the path and damage of the tornadoes.