{"id":218723,"date":"2026-06-14T04:31:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218723\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T04:31:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T04:31:22","slug":"november-5-2017-millcreek-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/218723\/","title":{"rendered":"November 5, 2017 Millcreek Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tornado Confirmed in Millcreek Township and the City of Erie in Erie County PA<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Public Information Statement<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Location&#8230;Millcreek Township and the City of Erie, Pennsylvania<br \/>Date&#8230;November 5, 2017<br \/>Start Time&#8230;6:07 PM EST<br \/>Start Time&#8230;6:09 PM EST<br \/>Maximum EF-Scale Rating&#8230;EF-1<br \/>Estimated Maximum Wind Speed&#8230;90 MPH<br \/>Maximum Path Width&#8230;100 yards<br \/>Path Length&#8230;1.94 miles<br \/>Fatalities&#8230;0<br \/>Injuries&#8230;0<\/p>\n<p>* The information in this statement is preliminary and subject to<br \/>change pending final review of the event(s) and publication in<br \/>NWS Storm Data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Summary&#8230;<br \/>The National Weather Service in Cleveland OH has confirmed a<br \/>tornado in Millcreek Township and City of Erie in Erie County<br \/>Pennsylvania on November 5 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The storm initially produced straightline wind damage with wind<br \/>estimates around 80 mph along Wellington Road in Millcreek. A<br \/>tornado from this storm system initially touched down near the<br \/>Sterrettania Road as an EF0.<\/p>\n<p>The tornado caused damages to a few homes and a shopping plaza as<br \/>well as uprooted several trees along Legion Road.<\/p>\n<p>Just before reaching Interstate 79 the storm increased to EF1<br \/>intensity and widened to a width of around 100 yards damaging<br \/>businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The storm ended at Greengarden Boulevard as an EF0. Minor tree damage<br \/>on the NASA south end of the property.<\/p>\n<p>This information can also be found on our website at<br \/>weather.gov\/cle.<\/p>\n<p>For reference: the Enhanced Fujita Scale classifies tornadoes<br \/>into the following categories:<\/p>\n<p>EF0&#8230;Wind speeds 65 to 85 mph<br \/>EF1&#8230;Wind speeds 86 to 110 mph<br \/>EF2&#8230;Wind speeds 111 to 135 mph<br \/>EF3&#8230;Wind speeds 136 to 165 mph<br \/>EF4&#8230;Wind speeds 166 to 200 mph<br \/>EF5&#8230;Wind speeds greater than 200 mph<\/p>\n<p>$$<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Map of the Millcreek Township Tornado Track as Described by the Above Public Information Statement\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Millcreek_EF1.PNG\" style=\"width: 750px; height: 409px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Damage from Milcreek Township Pennsylvania, November 5 2017\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/GPSe-171106-124220.jpg\" width=\"439\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tree Damage from Milcreek PA, November 5 2017\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Milcreek PA GPSe-171106-122102.jpg\" width=\"439\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trees snapped from Milcreek PA Tornado, November 5 2017\" height=\"246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Milcreek PA GPSe-171106-125215.jpg\" width=\"438\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tree damage in Milcreek PA, November 5 2017\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Milcreek PAGPSe-171106-124400.jpg\" width=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tornado Confirmed in Millcreek Township and the City of Erie in Erie County PA \u00a0 Public Information Statement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-218723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}