National Weather Service confirms EF-1 tornado touched down in Lancaster County

GAP, Pa. (WHTM) — A tornado touched down for about a mile in Lancaster County Tuesday night, the National Weather Service at State College said Friday night, damaging barns and a schoolhouse.

The tornado touched down in Salisbury Township around 7:44 p.m. Tuesday near Mount Vernon Road and Old Philadelphia Pike, near Gap.

It ripped the roof off of a barn and threw sections across a graveyard before ripping the roof off of another barn.

A one-room schoolhouse had its whole roof torn off as well…

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