Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Gap
24.02.2016 · Gap · Pennsylvania · United States
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Damage track length
7,84 km
Max. width
0,37 km
Duration
7
Injured
0
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Duration
- 7
- Maximum damage track width
- 0,37 km
- Damage track length
- 7,84 km
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Count
- 1
- Intensity estimate
- Damage assessment by a weather expert
- Intensity source
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_tornadoes_from_January_to_February_2016#February_24_event
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Land
- Land use at end
- Land
- Surface / terrain
- Land
- Injured
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Location description
- Lancaster
- Position
- N of Gap to NNE of White Horse
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- North America
- Geographic accuracy
- 1 km
Sources and further links
4 entries
Source
2
Source
Hauptquelle
www.weather.gov open externally
Source
Quelle
weather.gov
Link
1
Info
1
Info
Info
Approximately 50 structures were impacted, including numerous farm outbuildings and barns and two two-story homes losing the majority of their roofs, other homes, farm buildings, and sheds sustaining lesser degrees of roof and siding damage, a wooden barn and a large one-room Amish schoolhouse being destroyed, and a large building with more than 100 people attending an auction inside having its roof ripped off. Additionally, a van with several passengers was blown about 10 feet (3.0 m) into a field, several large granite tombstones in a cemetery were blown over, and numerous trees were downed.
Key facts
- Date
- 24.02.2016
- Time
- 18:38:00
- Location
- Gap
- Region
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- United States
Related info
Knowledge
Grundwissen
Tornados
Was Tornados sind, wie sie entstehen und warum eine saubere Dokumentation wichtig ist.
Intensität
Fujita- und TORRO-Skala
Überblick über Fujita-Skala und TORRO-Skala zur Bewertung von Tornadointensitäten.
Schadensanalyse
F-Skala-Analyse
Wie eine F-Skala-Bewertung vorbereitet wird und welche Daten dafür besonders wichtig sind.
EF-Skala
Erweiterte Fujita-Skala
Was die Erweiterte Fujita-Skala leisten kann und warum Schadensindikatoren wichtig sind.
Nearby events
8 hits
3,0 km away
Gap
22.06.2001 · Gap
5,0 km away
Paradise
27.09.2010 · Paradise
8,1 km away
Atglen
28.08.1992 · Atglen
9,1 km away
Gordonville
18.06.2000 · Gordonville
9,3 km away
Paradise
17.08.1974 · Paradise
10,8 km away
Ronks
30.08.1985 · Ronks
13,4 km away
Honey Brook
26.11.1999 · Honey Brook
17,5 km away
Pequea
31.05.1998 · Pequea
Similar events
Selection by type, country, region, intensity and year.