It's already been a month since the Northeast Philly tornado swiped a pair of local businesses and caused some property damage along Red Lion Road. Philadelphia has not been graced by the presence of powerful tornadoes but some have occurred at odd times of the year. The last tornado prior to the May 18th event was in January, 1999 in the Marconi Plaza area of South Philadelphia. That storm injured eighteen.
The strongest tornado within the city of Philadelphia since 1950 were three F2 tornadoes -- July 14, 1958, June 9, 1989, and June 1, 1998 -- the latter of the three struck in the Bustleton neighborhood.
Regionally, the strongest tornado to hit the Delaware Valley were F3's, most recently in Berks County in 1998 although a F3 tornado struck Limerick in July of 1994, with that tornado having killed three.
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