NWS confirms tornado struck NE Philly

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NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA - May 18, 2011 (WPVI) -- The National Weather Service has confirmed an EF0 hit the Northeast Philadelphia area on Wednesday afternoon.

The EF0 tornado is the lowest class of tornado with an estimated wind speed of 75 mph.

It touched down at 1:50 p.m. at Northeast Avenue and Red Lion Road. The path of the tornado was 300 feet long and 100 feet wide.

"The weaker ones are very hard sometimes to determine and you have to put all the pieces together. Like some of the EF4's and EF5's that they had down in the South a few weeks ago, they're very easy to tell, you see all the debris in all different directions," Joe Miketta of the National Weather Service said. .............(more)

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