Hazardous Travel Conditions Are Possible from the Winter Storm Moving from the Central Plains to the Mid-Atlantic

A major winter storm is moving from the Central Plains into the Mid-Atlantic region. Eight -14 inches of snow is forecast from northern Missouri through the Central Appalachians, with 6-12 inches of snow likely across the Mid-Atlantic states including the Washington, D.C. metro area. Heavy freezing rain will create a swath of damaging ice accumulations from Kansas through the central Appalachians. Read More >

This tornado touched down in the extreme northeast corner of Trumbull County, OH in Kinsman Township. The storm was on the ground in Ohio for only a few hundred yards. The storm damaged some farm buildings and downed trees. The tornado then traveled through Jamestown (Mercer County, PA), moved through Atlantic, Cochranton (both Crawford County, PA), Hannaville, Cooperstown, a trailer park eight miles north of Franklin, and Cherry Tree (all Venango County, PA), to three miles south of Tionesta (Forest County, PA). There were 23 deaths; five in Atlantic, three in Cochranton, five in Cooperstown, one at the trailer park, two at Cherry Tree, and seven at Tionesta. About 371 homes were damaged or destroyed. A mobile home park just west of Atlantic was completely destroyed. The small town of Atlantic was practically totaled. Just east of Atlantic, a communications tower was toppled by the tornado. Within three days, it was quickly replaced with a temporary tower.
Source: NCDC Storm Data: May 1985; Volume 27, Number 5