Tornado count from last week's outbreak in Philly region is at 9, and still climbing
The tornado count from last week’s incredible “supercell thunderstorm” outbreaks stood at nine on Monday and it was likely to grow, the National Weather Service said.
The agency still was looking at damages in the areas of Fort Dix in Burlington County and Fullerton in Lehigh County to determine if they were the result of tornadoes, said Sarah Johnson, a lead meteorologist at the Mount Holly office.
For a variety of reasons, it was unclear whether Thursday’s outbreak set any kind of local records, but the number of verified tornadoes already has exceeded the eight spawned by Tropical Storm Isaias last August in the office’s coverage territory, which includes most of eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Tornado that hit Bucks was an EF3 with winds of 140 mph: ‘I’d never seen anything like it, except on television.’
The twisters Thursday afternoon and night were set off by by an unusually high number of “supercell thunderstorms,” said Johnson.
She said that while ordinarily “straight-line winds” are the primary agents of storm damage, in this case most of it occurred along or near the the tornadoes’ paths, the most-powerful being the one that devastated parts Bensalem Township, Bucks County.
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