Royersford, Pennsylvania tornado path, 27 July 1994

What the record says

On 27 July 1994, a tornado touched down near Royersford, Pennsylvania. The Storm Prediction Center records its path as 2 miles long and up to 100 yards wide, rated F3 on the Fujita (F) scale. It killed 3 people and injured 25.

• F3Fujita rating
• 3deaths
• 25injuries
• 2 mipath length
• 100 ydmaximum width

It has its own page because it killed three or more people and it was rated 3 and killed at least one person.

This page gives the official record's figures. Numbers of deaths and injuries are sometimes revised after a survey, and they cannot convey what the day was like for the people who lived through it.

Counties it crossed

• Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

The start point was at 40.23, -75.52. The record has no end point for this tornado, so it is drawn as a dot.

How to read this path

The Storm Prediction Center records most tornadoes as a straight line from the point where they touched down to the point where they lifted. The real path usually curved and was not the same width all the way along. The width given is the widest part. Older records are less precise, and the record starts in 1950.

Source: the NOAA Storm Prediction Center database, public domain.