Areas of Excessive Rainfall from Southwest U.S. Monsoons; Monitoring Tropical Cyclone Formation Which Could Impact the Southeast U.S.

In Arizona and New Mexico, heavy to excessive rainfall from monsoon thunderstorms may bring isolated flash and urban flooding today into Sunday. Tropical wave (AL94) is likely to become a depression by late Friday or over this weekend in the vicinity of the Bahamas. Significant uncertainty remains in the track and intensity, but chances for impacts to the southeast U.S. coast are increasing. 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