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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
National Weather Service PITTSBURGH PA
154 PM EDT Thu May 30 2024

...NWS Damage Survey for 05/29/2024 Tornado Event...


.Latrobe, PA Tornado...

Rating:                 EF-0
Estimated Peak Wind:    60-70 mph
Path Length /statute/:  Unknown, estimated at about 0.25 mile
Path Width /maximum/:   Unknown, estimated at about 50 yards
Fatalities:             0
Injuries:               0

Start Date:             05/29/2024
Start Time:             6:16pm EDT
Start Location:         McChesneytown-Loyalhanna
Start Lat/Lon:          40.310N 79.361W

End Date:               05/29/2024
End Time:               6:18pm EDT
End Location:           McChesneytown-Loyalhanna
End Lat/Lon:            40.308N 79.356W

A brief, weak tornado occurred on May 29 in a strengthening/
developing convective cell on the east side of Latrobe, as
documented by multiple videos provided to NWS. An aerial survey by
Westmoreland EMA revealed patchy threshold damage over a short
distance along Route 982 east of Latrobe, including a few large
limbs and several small limbs snapped and shingles removed from a
home. The tornado appears to have formed as a developing updraft
interacted with an outflow boundary from other showers/storms and
briefly tightened a vertical circulation to tornadic intensity.
The updraft weakened quickly thereafter, as did the damaging wind
speed at the surface.

NWS Pittsburgh appreciates the assistance provided by
Westmoreland County EMA and the information provided by affected
residents to help us identify and classify this brief tornado.
This is the 21st tornado in the Pittsburgh CWA for the 2024
calendar year.

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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.

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Kramar