Erie County Deputy Coroner Lyell Cook and his wife were driving home to Girard from Erie on May 31, 1985. At Kmart on West 26th Street, they saw carts careening through the parking lot in the wind.

On May 31, 1985, an unprecedented 44 tornadoes ripped across Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and Ontario, Canada. The outbreak produced Pennsylvania's first and only F5 tornado, a violent twister that ...

It's been 40 years since western Pennsylvania endured one of the worst tornado outbreaks ever to hit the area. On May 31, 1985, over the span of nine hours, more than 40 tornadoes touched down in Ohio ...

A devastating tornado struck Beaver County, Pennsylvania, on May 31, 1985, resulting in three fatalities, over 100 injuries, and widespread property damage. Communication technology at the time ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — On the evening of May 31, 1985, a series of large and deadly tornadoes swept across northeastern and central Ohio, leaving wide paths of destruction. Victoria Piasecka, a ...

WARREN — For many of the people who attended the standing-room-only discussion of the 40th anniversary of the May 31, 1985, tornado Saturday at the Warren-Trumbull County Public Library, their ...

Staff photo / Bob Coupland Frank Sole of Poland, left, and Andrew Brincko of Youngstown, who are both ham radio operators, look over material on the May 31, 1985, tornado during which they both helped ...

Albion tornado recalled by Erie County residents 40 years later The deadly tornado on May 31, 1985, touched down shorty after 5 p.m., leaving a path of destruction through Albion and Cranesville.