{"id":248014,"date":"2026-07-20T22:18:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248014\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:18:06","slug":"nws-confirms-four-tornados-in-central-pennsylvania-including-ef-2-in-huntingdon-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248014\/","title":{"rendered":"NWS confirms four tornados in Central Pennsylvania, including EF-2 in Huntingdon County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 The National Weather Service has confirmed that four tornados reportedly touched down this past weekend as severe weather swept across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Officials confirming Monday that the strongest of those storms was an EF-2 tornado that touched down along Old Mill Road in the Warriors Mark area of Huntingdon County on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>NWS officials say the tornado reportedly reached a maximum wind speed of 125 mph as it downed countless trees and caused damage to several structures, including multiple silos and an occupied cabin.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined that it was part of the same storm system that produced an EF-1 tornado in the <a href=\"https:\/\/wjactv.com\/weather\/preliminary-ef-1-tornado-confirmed-in-clearfield-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houtzdale\/Woodward Township area of Clearfield County.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weather officials say that tornado reached an estimated wind speed of 110 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the NWS also confirmed that an EF-1 tornado caused damage in the Summerville area, near the Clarion and Jefferson county line.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say that tornado reached an estimated wind speed of 90 mph and uprooted several trees.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in Jefferson County, the NWS says an EF-0 tornado was reported in the Punxsutawney area, causing localized damage near Graffius Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>NWS surveyors say no injuries were reported in any of the storms and emergency crews are continuing to assist with cleanup in the affected communities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PENNSYLVANIA (WJAC) \u2014 The National Weather Service has confirmed that four tornados reportedly touched down this past weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-248014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248014","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=248014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}