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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
727 PM EDT FRI JUN 19 2026
..NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR JUNE 14TH 2026 TORNADO EVENT UPDATE #4
UPDATE
THE ANITA PA TORNADO HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO EF2 (MAX WIND 115 MPH)
BASED ON AERIAL IMAGERY OF FORESTED AREAS INACCESSIBLE FROM THE
GROUND.
WE ARE CONTINUING TO REVIEW DAMAGE REPORTS NEAR OTHER KNOWN
TORNADO TRACKS FROM JUNE 14TH, PARTICULARLY IN VENANGO, BUTLER AND
BEAVER COUNTIES, SO ADDITIONAL UPDATES ARE POSSIBLE, AS SOME DAMAGE
MAY BE LOCATED IN INACCESSIBLE AREAS FROM THE GROUND. ADDITIONAL
AERIAL PERSPECTIVE MAY BE NEEDED TO EVALUATE THE TRACKS COMPLETELY.
ANITA PA TORNADO
RATING: EF2
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 115 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 3.76 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 300 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 06/14/2026
START TIME: 04:36 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 4 NW PUNXSUTAWNEY / JEFFERSON COUNTY / PA
START LAT/LON: 41.0042 / -79.013
END DATE: 06/14/2026
END TIME: 04:49 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 4 WNW BIG RUN / JEFFERSON COUNTY / PA
END LAT/LON: 41.0155 / -78.9471
SURVEY SUMMARY:
WITH THE GUIDANCE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY EMA, A SURVEY TEAM FROM NWS
PITTSBURGH EVALUATED DAMAGE FROM SUNDAY'S STORMS IN JEFFERSON
COUNTY, PA. THE TEAM HAS CONFIRMED THAT THE DAMAGE OBSERVED WAS
THE RESULT OF A TORNADO.
DAMAGE WAS FIRST SEEN IN A WOODED AREA BOUNDED BY NICKLES ROAD
AND LONDON ROAD, MAINLY IN THE FORM OF SPORADIC SNAPPED LIMBS.
AS THE STORM EMERGED FROM THE WOODED AREA, IT SNAPPED SOFTWOOD
TREES AT A FARMSTEAD NEAR BURNS AND ANITA OLIVEBURG ROAD. THE
TORNADO WEAKENED BRIEFLY AS IT PROGRESSED EASTWARD, WITH
INTERMITTENT DAMAGE TO LIMBS ALONG ANITA OLIVEBURG ROAD AND BLOCKS
RD, INCLUDING ONE ON A SHED.
AFTER CROSSING TO KNOX DALE ROAD, THE TORNADIC CIRCULATION
STRENGTHENED AND GREW IN SIZE, AND DAMAGE BECAME CONSIDERABLY MORE
CONSISTENT AND NOTABLE. BEGINNING HERE AND CONTINUING NORTHEAST
TOWARD ROUTE 310, LARGE SWATHS OF HEALTHY AND STURDY HARDWOOD AND
SOFTWOOD TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED, MOST NOTABLY NEAR TEAM
ROAD AND ALONG AN ADJACENT HILLSIDE. ON THIS HILLSIDE WAS THE MOST
SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE, WHERE ALMOST NO TREE WAS LEFT INTACT. DESPITE
THE INCREASE IN INTENSITY, DAMAGE TO ADJACENT STRUCTURES APPEARED
LIMITED, SUGGESTING THE GRADIENT IN WIND SPEED ACROSS THE
TORNADIC CIRCULATION WAS SHARP.
**NEW** BASED ON AERIAL VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY, WIND SPEED ALONG
THE SEGMENT OF THE PATH FROM KNOXDALE ROAD ALONG TEAM ROAD WAS
ESTIMATED TO BE UP TO 115 MPH. THIS TORNADO HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO
EF2 STRENGTH.***
AFTER DESCENDING THE HILL ALONG ROUTE 310 TOWARD SHANE DR, THE
CIRCULATION WEAKENED ONLY SLIGHTLY, AND DAMAGE CONTINUED,
CONSISTING OF SNAPPED AND UPROOTED TREES. ALSO IN THIS AREA, A
HOME LOST ITS CARPORT AND SUFFERED LIGHT DAMAGE TO SIDING AND ROOF
MATERIAL. HERE WIND WAS MOST CONSISTENT WITH 90-100 MPH SPEED.
***NEW***DAMAGE TO A BARN AND TREES ALONG GRAFFIUS AVE EXTWAS
BROUGHT TO THE SURVEY TEAM'S ATTENTION ON TUESDAY, ENABLING THE
SURVEY TEAM TO EXTEND THE PRIOR PATH OVER THE HILLSIDE ADJACENT
TO SHANE DR.***
THE MOST SIGNIFICANT OBSERVED DAMAGE IS CONSISTENT WITH EF2 WIND
SPEED (MAX WIND 115 MPH). NO TORNADIC DAMAGE WAS REPORTED
ELSEWHERE ACROSS JEFFERSON COUNTY. ADDITIONAL EXTENSIVE SEARCHES
FOR DAMAGE WERE CONDUCTED IN THE RINGGOLD AREA, AND NEAR CORSICA,
TO NO AVAIL.
AS OF THIS UPDATE, THE TORNADO'S PATH IS UPDATED TO 3.76 MILES,
WITH A MAXIMUM WIDTH OF 300 YD.
NWS PITTSBURGH IS GRATEFUL FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF JEFFERSON COUNTY
EMA, LOCAL TOWNSHIP FIRE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL, AND THE PUBLIC FOR
THEIR DAMAGE REPORTS AND AERIAL IMAGERY THAT FACILITATED THE
COMPLETION OF THIS SURVEY.
DIAMOND PA TORNADO
RATING: EF0
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 80 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.40 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 50 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 06/14/2026
START TIME: 05:14 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 4 SSW HYDETOWN / VENANGO COUNTY / PA
START LAT/LON: 41.5992 / -79.7609
END DATE: 06/14/2026
END TIME: 05:16 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 4 SSW HYDETOWN / VENANGO COUNTY / PA
END LAT/LON: 41.5977 / -79.7541
SURVEY SUMMARY:
THE NATIONAL WEATHER CONCLUDED A WEAK EF0 TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN ON
THE WEST SIDE OF STONE SPRINGHOUSE ROAD IN A WOODED AREA WHERE
LARGE TREE BRANCHES WERE BROKEN. IT THEN TRAVELED ACROSS THE
AFOREMENTIONED ROAD AND CONTINUED TO UPROOT TREES AND SNAP OFF
LARGE BRANCHES FROM BOTH HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD TREES. THIS IS THE
LOCATION OF THE DAMAGE THAT PRODUCED THE HIGHEST ESTIMATED WIND
SPEED. THIS WAS JUST SOUTH OF THE INTERSECTION OF BREEDTOWN ROAD
AND STONE SPRINGHOUSE ROAD. THERE WAS NO STRUCTURE DAMAGE
OBSERVED; ONLY FALLEN TREES. AN ESTIMATED 30 TREES WERE IMPACTED BY
THIS TORNADO.
MORAINE NORTH SHORE IN SLIPPERY ROCK PA
RATING: EF1
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 97 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 3.21 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 60 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 06/14/2026
START TIME: 05:34 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 4 N PORTERSVILLE / BUTLER COUNTY / PA
START LAT/LON: 40.9897 / -80.1391
END DATE: 06/14/2026
END TIME: 05:38 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 2 SSW WEST LIBERTY / BUTLER COUNTY / PA
END LAT/LON: 40.9851 / -80.0803
SURVEY SUMMARY:
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN PITTSBURGH CONCLUDED AN EF1
TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST NORTH OF MORAINE STATE PARK ON SUNDAY
JUNE 14TH. THE TORNADO STARTED ON PATTERSON ROAD, WEST OF WEST PARK
ROAD, THEN MOVED EAST, SNAPPING LARGE BRANCHES AND A FEW TREES NEAR
THE TRUNK ALONG CORNELLUS ROAD. THERE WAS A BRIEF PERIOD WHEN THE
CIRCULATION WEAKENED BEFORE STRENGTHENING AGAIN AND CAUSING TREE
DAMAGE ON CORNELLUS ROAD. THE LARGEST AMOUNT OF TREE DAMAGE WAS
OBSERVED ON WEST PARK ROAD WHERE AN OLD BARN ROOF WAS LIFTED OFF AND
NUMEROUS LARGE TREES HAD BRANCHES KNOCKED DOWN.
MUDDY CREEK ROAD NEAR ROUTE 8 IN SLIPPERY ROCK PA
RATING: EF0
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 85 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.63 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 40 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 06/14/2026
START TIME: 05:46 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 4 ESE WEST LIBERTY / BUTLER COUNTY / PA
START LAT/LON: 40.9775 / -79.9814
END DATE: 06/14/2026
END TIME: 05:46 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 4 SW WEST SUNBURY / BUTLER COUNTY / PA
END LAT/LON: 40.9723 / -79.972
SURVEY SUMMARY:
A SEPARATE CIRCULATION PRODUCED A SECOND TORNADO (EF0 INTENSITY)
SOUTHEAST OF THE FIRST TRACK. THIS STORM BROKE LARGE HARDWOOD TREE
BRANCHES. NO STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED OR REPORTED. ADDITIONAL
DAMAGE FARTHER INTO THE WOODED AREAS IS POSSIBLE AND COULD
NECESSIATE FUTURE CHANGES IF AERIAL FOOTAGE IS OBTAINED AT A LATER
DATE.
NEAR SALEM OH TORNADO
RATING: EF1
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 100 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 10.8 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 450 YARDS
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 06/14/2026
START TIME: 04:56 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 2.5 SW SALEM / COLUMBIANA COUNTY / OH
START LAT/LON: 40.8861 / -80.9014
END DATE: 06/14/2026
END TIME: 05:08 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 3 WSW MIDDLETON / COLUMBIANA COUNTY / OH
END LAT/LON: 40.8331 / -80.7078
SURVEY SUMMARY:
TORNADO DAMAGE WAS FIRST NOTED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF CIDER MILL
ROAD AND GEORGETOWN ROAD, WITH SOME TREES SNAPPED AND UPROOTED. AS
THE TORNADO TRAVELED SOUTHEAST, IT RIPPED OFF AND THREW A METAL
SHEET 800FT INTO NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES AND INTO THE TREES. SEVERAL
TREES IN THIS LOCATION WERE ALSO SNAPPED HALF WAY UP THE BASE OR
UPROOTED. ADDITIONAL DAMAGE WAS NOTED, AGAIN TO TREES ALONG STEWARD
ROAD AND HUNT ROAD. HERE, TREES WERE UPROOTED AND SNAPPED,
BRINGING DOWN A POWER POLE. A HOUSE ALSO HAD SOME SHINGLES REMOVED
AND THREE LARGE PINES UPROOTED. A DEFINITIVE PATH CONTINUED TO THE
SOUTH AND EAST WITH ADDITIONAL DAMAGE NOTED ALONG DEPOT ROAD, STATE
ROUTE 45, SALEM GRANGE ROAD, LISBON ROAD AND JUST SOUTH OF STATE
ROUTE 558. ALL OF THIS DAMAGE WAS TO TREES. THE TORNADO THEN LIFTED
JUST WEST OF STATE ROUTE 11, NEAR LOWER ELTON ROAD, WHERE DAMAGE
BECAME MUCH MORE SPORADIC AND MORE INDICATIVE OF STRAIGHT-LINE
WINDS.
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD LIKE TO THANK COLUMBIANA
COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FOR ASSISTANCE ON THIS SURVEY.
NEAR CANNELTON PA TORNADO
RATING: EF1
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 90 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.78 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 140 YARDS
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 06/14/2026
START TIME: 05:24 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 1 ENE NEGLEY / COLUMBIANA COUNTY / OH
START LAT/LON: 40.793 / -80.5239
END DATE: 06/14/2026
END TIME: 05:26 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 2 WSW CANNELTON / BEAVER COUNTY / PA
END LAT/LON: 40.7882 / -80.5112
SURVEY SUMMARY:
THE CELL THAT PRODUCED THE TORNADO NEAR SALEM CONTINUED TO TRACK
SOUTHEASTWARD TOWARD NEGLEY OH WITH A MUCH WEAKER PRESENTATION ON
RADAR THAN IT HAD PRIOR. JUST BEFORE THE STORM REACHED THE STATE
BORDER, ANOTHER TIGHTENING OF THE COUPLET WAS NOTED COINCIDENT WITH
A SWATH OF DAMAGE ALONG AND SOUTH OF DARLINGTON/CANNELTON ROAD.
HERE, SEVERAL TREES WERE DOWNED ALONG THE YOUNGSTOWN AND SOUTHERN
RAILROAD TRACKS AND ON A PROPERTY JUST ACROSS THE PA STATE LINE
INTO BEAVER COUNTY. AT THIS LOCATION, AN AWNING OF A GARAGE WAS
RIPPED OFF AND FLIPPED OVER THE GARAGE, FROM SOUTH TO NORTH, AS
TREES WERE SNAPPED AND UPROOTED THROUGH THE PROPERTY. THIS WOULD
BE WHERE THE TORNADO WAS STRONGEST BEFORE BEGINNING TO WEAKEN AS
IT MOVED TO THE SOUTHWEST. SOME TREE DAMAGE WAS NOTED JUST SOUTH
OF CANNELTON ROAD BEFORE WATTS MILLS ROAD BUT NO ADDITIONAL DAMAGE
WAS NOTED EAST OF THERE. PENDING ADDITIONAL AERIAL SURVEYS, THE
TRACK COULD BE EXTENDED SOUTHEAST, BUT RADAR SUGGESTS THAT A STORM
DEVELOPING AHEAD OF THIS ONE DISRUPTED ITS TORNADOGENESIS AND
LIKELY PRECLUDED TOO MUCH FARTHER TRACKING OF THE TORNADO SOUTHEAST.
NEAR BEAVER FALLS PA TORNADO
RATING: EF0
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 85 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.73 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 200 YARDS
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 06/14/2026
START TIME: 05:36 PM EDT
START LOCATION: 1 NW RACINE / BEAVER COUNTY / PA
START LAT/LON: 40.7671 / -80.3523
END DATE: 06/14/2026
END TIME: 05:38 PM EDT
END LOCATION: 1 NW BEAVER FALLS / BEAVER COUNTY / PA
END LAT/LON: 40.7642 / -80.3391
SURVEY SUMMARY:
CONCENTRATED DAMAGE WAS FIRST NOTED BY DARLING ROAD AND CLAYTON
ROAD, WHICH WAS COINCIDENT WITH A TIGHTENING COUPLET ON THE RADAR.
DAMAGE IN THIS LOCATION WAS MAINLY TO TREES, WITH LARGE BRANCHES
SNAPPED AND ONE TREE UPROOTED. DAMAGE THEN CONTINUED ALONG CLAYTON
ROAD AND IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD JUST SOUTH OF CLAYTON ROAD. SOME SIDING
WAS RIPPED OFF A HOME ON GEORGE STREET AND TREES WERE SNAPPED OFF
AT VARYING LEVELS IN A SOUTHEASTWARD DIRECTION. A GARAGE WAS SMASHED
AFTER A PORTION OF A PINE TREE WAS SHEARED OFF AT ITS TOP. TREE
DAMAGE WAS NOTED UNTIL AROUND 27TH STREET, WHEN THE TORNADO
APPEARS TO HAVE LIFTED COINCIDENT WITH WEAKENING OF THE RADAR
SIGNATURE.
EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE
FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:
EF0.....65 TO 85 MPH
EF1.....86 TO 110 MPH
EF2.....111 TO 135 MPH
EF3.....136 TO 165 MPH
EF4.....166 TO 200 MPH
EF5.....>200 MPH
NOTE:
THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO
CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT AND PUBLICATION IN
NWS STORM DATA.
KRAMAR/FRAZIER/MILLER/MCMULLEN
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