A tornado with winds up to 80 mph touched down Monday in Berks County, the National Weather Service confirmed a day after a line of thunderstorms swept through the region.
The twister left a path 2.1 miles long and 50 yards wide at 2:36 p.m., toppling hardwood trees along the southern slope of Blue Mountain in the Shartlesville area, about 30 miles west of Allentown, officials concluded in a preliminary report on the weather service website. No injuries were reported.
The tornado was classified as an EF0, meaning it had winds between 65 and 85 mph and putting it on the lowest level of the scale that measures tornado strength.
It was not the only tornado associated with Monday’s line of storms. A weather service meteorologist in the Mount Holly, N.J., office said another EF0 tornado was also confirmed in Delaware’s Sussex County.
by Steve Novak
June 20, 2017
