The National Weather Service yesterday confirmed that it was indeed a tornado that touched down in Beaver County Wednesday night.
A tornado warning had been issued at 9:30 p.m.
NWS officials surveyed the damage yesterday, and determined that the twister touched down near Beaver Falls and moved in a northeasterly direction between Ellwood City and Zelienople.
Numerous trees were uprooted and there was other significant damage, but fortunately no injuries.
The tornado was confirmed as an EF-2 storm on the Fijita scale, making it the strongest twister since an EF-3 twister moved through parts of Beaver and Butler Counties on May 31, 1985. That tornado killed nine people.
A handful of Butler County residents are still without power as of this morning. First Energy says 23 homes currently have outages.
We’ve confirmed another tornado associated with last night’s storms in Beaver County. Rated and EF2 which makes it the strongest tornado to hit the county since May 31st 1985. We will have more details out later this afternoon with a final public information statement.
— NWS Pittsburgh (@NWSPittsburgh) June 11, 2020
