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Tornado Upends Trees, Damages Roofs In Berks County: NWS Tornado Upends Trees, Damages Roofs In Berks County: NWS
Tornado Upends Trees, Damages Roofs In Berks County: NWS The severe thunderstorms and heavy winds that rained out Berks County over the weekend were accompanied by an EF-1 tornado, the National Weather Service has confirmed.  The twister traveled about a mile through Womelsdorf on Saturday, April 22 in about a two-minute span, meteorologists said in a report published Tuesday. It began at 4:18 p.m. just southwest of the borough along Route 419, pushing over wooden telephone poles near the Lebanon County line as it made its way northeast, NWS wrote.  The storm mangled and uprooted some softwood trees near Conrad Weiser West Elementary School, wher…

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