Two Tornados Confirmed to Have Touched Down In Beaver County Saturday Morning

A tree was uprooted and knocked over at the entrance to Grandview Cemetery on Pine Run Road in New Sewickley  Township by the confirmed tornado on Saturday morning 

Story and Photos by Frank Sparks News/Program Director

7:25 AM

(Beaver County, Pa.) Forecasters say a pair of tornados have been confirmed in Beaver County Saturday morning. The National Weather Service says an EF-0 tornado with estimated winds up to 85 mph touched down in Shippingport before dawn Saturday. The storm uprooted trees and ripped the roof off a pavilion behind the municipal building. Another EF-1 tornado touched down in Monaca shortly before 6:30 a.m. Saturday and traveled two miles with estimated maximum winds up to 95 mph. It uprooted trees, sending one onto the windshield of a car, and ripped the roof off a mobile home before crossing the Ohio River and causing more damage in the area 9th Street in Freedom and Pine Run Road in New Sewickley Township.


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