Tornado Confirmed near Coudersport

While there was a lot of straight line wind damage in the state on July 26th, one of the storms did briefly drop a tornado. Here is the statement after the National Weather Service survey.

...TORNADO CONFIRMED NEAR COUDERSPORT IN POTTER COUNTY

PENNSYLVANIA...

LOCATION...COUDERSPORT IN POTTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA

DATE...7/26/2012

ESTIMATED TIME...1515 EDT

MAXIMUM EF-SCALE RATING...EF0

ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...80 MPH 

MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...150 YARDS 

PATH LENGTH...400 YARDS 

BEGINNING LAT/LON...41.7911N / 78.0112W 

ENDING LAT/LON...41.7917N / 78.0044W

* FATALITIES...0

* INJURIES...0

* THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO

CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT(S) AND PUBLICATION IN NWS

STORM DATA.

...SUMMARY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN STATE COLLEGE PA HAS CONFIRMED A

TORNADO NEAR COUDERSPORT IN POTTER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA ON 7/26/2012.

A TORNADO OCCURRED NORTHEAST OF COUDERSPORT PA ON JULY 26 2012 IN

ASSOCIATION WITH A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS. THE PATH OF THE

EF0 TORNADO WAS APPROXIMATELY 150 YARDS WIDE AND ONE QUARTER MILE

LONG. DAMAGE WAS LIMITED TO TREES WITH NO DAMAGE TO HOUSES.

ADDITIONAL DAMAGE...NOT RELATED TO THE TORNADO...WAS REPORTED

COUNTY-WIDE IN THE OVERALL PATH OF THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX.

FOR REFERENCE...THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO

THE FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:

EF0...WIND SPEEDS 65 TO 85 MPH.

EF1...WIND SPEEDS 86 TO 110 MPH.

EF2...WIND SPEEDS 111 TO 135 MPH.

EF3...WIND SPEEDS 136 TO 165 MPH.

EF4...WIND SPEEDS 166 TO 200 MPH.

EF5...WIND SPEEDS GREATER THAN 200 MPH.

June Weather Summary

The first month of meteorological summer had it's ups and downs. Overall, the ups won out as it was a warm and dry month. Here are the numbers:


Highest Temp: 95 on the 29th.
Lowest Temp: 44 on the 6th
Average High: 78.9 (+1.7)
Average Low: 57.4 (+1.2)
Average Temp: 68.2 (1.5) - 19th warmest behind 72.8 in 1943.
Month Precip: 1.35" (-2.13") - 5th driest. Driest was .61: last year.





 

June 2012

Date	High	Low	Avg	HDD	CDD	GDD	Avg	Avg	Avg	Avg	Avg	Total
	Temp.	Temp.	Temp.				Dewpoint	RH	Wind Speed	Wind Dir	Press	Precip
6/1	70	56	63	2	0	8	56	75	8	123	1009	0.3
6/2	68	52	60	5	0	5	45	62	11	261	1009	0
6/3	72	50	61	4	0	6	49	71	8	212	1009	0.2
6/4	65	53	59	6	0	4	49	73	8	232	1008	0.05
6/5	64	49	56.5	8.5	0	1.5	49	80	3	33	1013	0.02
6/6	70	44	57	8	0	2	48	71	1	50	1016	Trace
6/7	73	50	61.5	3.5	0	6.5	51	73	5	178	1017	0.06
6/8	78	50	64	1	0	9	51	62	6	216	1017	0
6/9	84	54	69	0	4	14	52	55	7	221	1017	0
6/10	87	59	73	0	8	18	56	54	4	131	1020	0
6/11	83	62	72.5	0	7.5	17.5	60	64	6	110	1020	Trace
6/12	80	64	72	0	7	17	64	84	5	173	1015	0.2
6/13	76	57	66.5	0	1.5	11.5	50	60	8	193	1018	0
6/14	77	53	65	0	0	10	53	67	4	61	1023	0
6/15	78	59	68.5	0	3.5	13.5	56	66	4	112	1026	0
6/16	77	55	66	0	1	11	55	68	3	78	1025	0
6/17	77	57	67	0	2	12	55	63	9	181	1020	0
6/18	67	60	63.5	1.5	0	8.5	59	85	7	162	1018	0.26
6/19	87	63	75	0	10	20	64	76	5	170	1021	0
6/20	91	68	79.5	0	14.5	24.5	65	64	4	198	1021	0
6/21	90	67	78.5	0	13.5	23.5	66	65	5	166	1016	0
6/22	84	68	76	0	11	21	63	67	6	245	1013	Trace
6/23	82	58	70	0	5	15	55	59	5	170	1017	0
6/24	82	57	69.5	0	4.5	14.5	55	61	2	78	1017	0
6/25	76	58	67	0	2	12	51	58	10	245	1011	0.04
6/26	76	54	65	0	0	10	45	51	11	326	1013	0
6/27	82	55	68.5	0	3.5	13.5	51	53	9	245	1014	0
6/28	91	58	74.5	0	9.5	19.5	57	54	6	214	1012	0
6/29	95	69	82	0	17	27	67	61	8	224	1010	0.22
6/30	86	64	75	0	10	20	63	69	7	237	1012	Trace
	78.933	57.433	68.183	39.5	135	395.5	55.333	65.7	6.166667	174.83333	1015.9	1.35