Confirmed PA Tornado Traveled 3+ Miles: NWS

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, PA — Weather officials have shared more details about a confirmed tornado that touched down close to the New Jersey border in Northampton County on Monday.

The National Weather Service said that an EF0 tornado with peak winds of 65 miles per hour traveled a more than three-mile path in Martins Creek, dissipating just before it got to Belvidere, NJ.

The NWS survey “found several wheat fields to the west of Martins Creek Belvidere Highway showing convergent damage patterns along a narrow path.”

“In the absence of additional damage indicators, NWS surveyors used wheat crop damage to confirm EF-0 damage using the diameter of small branches broken. To the west of the damage path, there were several additional fields showing damage that was consistent with divergent straight line winds,” surveyors added.