Heavy Rainfall for Portions of the West and Central U.S.; Monitoring Fire Weather Conditions for New England

Tropical moisture continues to flow across portions of the Great Basin, desert Southwest and California. Isolated instances of flash flooding remains possible. Meanwhile, a storm and associated frontal boundary will focus showers and thunderstorms for the center of the nation. For New England, dry and breezy conditions could enhance favorable fire weather conditions. 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