May 30, 1985. I was sitting on my steps of my front porch In Avalon Pennsylvania facing west near Sunset. I was sitting there with my three-year-old son watching the distant horizon clouds with lightning flashes about two flashes per second constantly. My son said “gonna rain”.

The next morning, my motorcycle riding buddy and I headed out about 7 o’clock in the morning on our motorcycles, we headed west. About 20 miles from Pittsburgh we ran into road closures with volunteer fireman, waving their arms to go another way. This happened three times down near beaver Falls PA. They kept redirecting redirecting us. Finally, I stopped at one of the road closures and I asked the fireman very impatiently, what’s going on? Is there a parade or something? He looked at me and said where have you been, we’ve had tornadoes go through here and people have died. I didn’t know. So we headed north to get away from the road closures and devastation which happened to be around the Jamesway mall were four people died from the tornado strike.
so we headed north from the Pittsburgh area up towards Newcastle and Sharon, Pennsylvania, and up towards Lake Erie. We started running into road closures again. One of the things we saw, I actually took pictures of it. It was in an Amish community called Albion. Cleared fields from Horizon to Horizon with a small street going down where there were buildings and houses. The tornado could have gone down one of the fields on the left or the right, but it went right down the main street, destroying all the buildings. Where I stopped to take a few photos, there was an Arco barrier wrapped around a Tree I was standing next to. I don’t even know where that came from.
there is a movie —night of the living dead made in the 1960s or 70s by Director George Romero filmed in Evan city Pennsylvania about 25 miles north of Pittsburgh. In the opening scene of that movie, there is a girl in a cemetery, and she ends up being chased by a zombie or a ghoul in that cemetery in Evan city. The tornadoes of May 31, 1985 hit that cemetery and actually removed the lids of some of the crypts and pulled the caskets out of their graves. There was a tavern on Main Street/Route 68 through that small town. Evan city called the grouse house.. my riding buddy and I would stop in there for a hot sausage that the owner would make on his grill behind the bar that was different, it was made with hot sausage, but it was a hamburger patty. In that bar, there is a photo of that tornado that hit that cemetery that one of the locals took. At least there was a photo and it was a center of attention for sometime in the grass house. It has since changed hands and the name, but I wonder if the photo is still hanging on the wall

When I was walking home,  I also noticed how strange and calm it was. I also noticed that the clouds at different elevations seems to be going two different directions. Very strange.

I still remember ciming out of the old Sparkle on Taggart Street in East Palestine, looking at the greenish sky, and commenting about it being a twister sky which my parents diamissed, saying how the hills would break any tornado up.
We had barely gotten to our vampsite when the storm hit. We had thought it was just a strong thunderstorm until we later learned that that storm had caused a brief tornado near Columbiana OH before the funnel lifted before settling on the ground just over the Pennsylvania line before striking near Beaver Falls.
I can't say that storms scare me, but I am still highly aware of severe weather to this day.

I lived through the F5 that Trumbull County in NE Ohio

I live in Kane, Pa now, but at the time I lived 5 miles west of Smethport, Pa on Route 6.        I was 9 years old at the time.

I seen the tornado that traveled past Dempseytown, Pa. I was 15 years aged. GOD bless the Best family.

Thank you AccuWeather for posting this

I was 11 and alone in a trailer me and the next door neighbor was left a girl across the street was locked out of her house and hid under the car unfortunately she was found in the lake a bit from the trailer park. I was scared the trailer did lift up and slammed down. I also looked out front door the steps flew away and I had a hard time closing the door. I ran to the bathroom and sat down crying. I didn’t sound like a train more like and Erie suction noise with a weird hum.

I remember riding my bike prior and the was not clouds the brightest blue sky. I licked my finger and stuck it out and there was no wind at all it was and Erie stillness that even as a little girl struck me odd. My dad who was working at the prison at that time called the police to check on me in the after math he couldn’t get home because there was too much debris blocking the street. I was scared to answer the door but the firefighters said who they where and it was OK the open the door.

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