EF-1 Tornado touched down in Washington County during storms on Wednesday, NWS says

GASTONVILLE, Pa. — The National Weather Service said a tornado touched down in Washington County during severe storms on Wednesday.

NWS meteorologists said the strong winds came in a straight line from Finleyville.

The tornado was an EF-1 and estimated to have reached a peak wind speed of 90 m.p.h.

This is the second confirmed tornado in Washington County and the first since EF-1 since June 26.

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“We’ve seen damage from a tornado. We see uprooted and snapped trees, shingle damage, actually the most structural damage we’ve seen in our survey today,” said NWS meteorologist Matthew Kramar.

The Chartiers Township Fire Department posted on Facebook that their department responded to multiple reports of trees and wires down.

The majority of the damage was on Silver Maple, Green, Walnut and Locust Streets.

“We were in the house; we heard the big gust of wind!” said Morgan Cottrill who came outside to walk her dog.

“Obviously, a lot of trees down, branches everywhere. There was a big chunk of glass that was in our yard, I don’t know where it came from or what it was originally part of!”

Morgan said it was heartwarming to see neighbors helping neighbors.

“It was trash night, so there was just trash everywhere. I just thought it was so sweet, everyone was out helping each other, everyone asking are you ok are you ok?”

Two other tornadoes were confirmed in Butler County.

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