WDAU TV 22, Athens, PA "tornado" June 1985

A news clip from the June 1985 "tornado" that swept through Athens, PA from WDAU, now WYOU. The sound is out in the first few seconds. It was later found that straight line winds caused the damage and not a tornado. Debbie Dunleavy, Gary Essex and Beth Powers report.

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[ljpenterprises1]

The yellow house with the crushed cars is my house!

[DASSAM71]

There was a tornado that also hit central PA (Watsontown) that same time

[SheriffTankStoner]

@Lucidtomr Was that the tornado that hit south of Lake Scranton?

[halodude178]

@broder36 lol i live in Sayre hey rember that day where um near roundtop a tornado happend but it was small

[undergroundpimp1995]

wow i'v been living in athens sence i was 5 and the only things that happen are usally floods but i live in miltown now and thats only like 2 min away lol

[broder36]

I live in Athens and even though I wasnt even alive yet when this hit, there are still places you can go and find trees that were blown down and find the path that it took thru the woods

[mightymouth1237]

This was not the act of straight lined winds! Sorry- All of the homes would of been destroyed- Not just one with next door being untouched- The most likely reason why the tornado was not recorded for some odd reason was because it was a small event- Not even an f1

[whs2013]

athens isn't even in the same state as binghamton. it only takes 45 minutes to get there, sure, but you can't just be like,

" i'm going to athens to get some milk, be right back."

lol

[sethx365]

heh heh i know Sylvia lulz. she go to my church lulz.

[Lucidtomr]

Athens is part of Binghamton's local region. I wonder how come there is no data available when I search for the tornado in 1992 that hit Scranton.