There t'was another F1/F2 tornado in town on the 14th, coming from the northwest and spinning across the Allegheny and Conewango rivers before doing some damage a block north of the house. The warning sirens went off at 8:03 pm and the storm hit about 15 minutes later. I watched from the front porch and through a window to the back of the house and saw dark clouds and rain and wind, but never knew a tornado had been so close until the next day. Actually, straight line 'blowdown' winds that push over dozens of trees are fairly common in these mountains, so that's all I thought the storm was. This particular tornado seems to have formed and dissipated several times based on the damage: it came down a mountain and crossed the Allegheny where it destroyed a lumberyard then climbed over another mountain doing minimal tree damage, then fell back to the valley where we live. Here it took down some trees and power lines and damaged but did not destroy several buildings. Fortunately, no one was hurt. Three years ago an F1 tornado followed a similar route where there is a gap in the mountains that apparently aids in their formation.
