A tornado passed through the Newtown Township area Saturday. Here are the details

A tornado that developed in Wrightstown tore a nearly 4-mile path ending in Newtown Township on Saturday evening uprooting trees in neighborhoods and the Bucks County Community College’s Newtown Township campus and damaging a popular Newtown Township restaurant.

No injuries or death associated with the storms were reported. The National Weather Service on Monday confirmed preliminary damage surveys found an EF1 tornado with wind speeds of  95 to 105 mph touched down in Wrightstown and ended four minutes later in Newtown Township.

An EF1 is categorized as the weakest tornado on the enhanced Fujita scale with EF4 and EF5 listed as the most violent with winds in excess of 166 mph.

The Bucks County tornado was one of at least six confirmed as of Monday in three states, and the only one confirmed in Pennsylvania, according to the NWS headquartered in Westampton, New Jersey.

Additional damage surveys were planned for Monday and may include the southern Bucks County, the weather service said. A more detailed summary of the Bucks County tornado was expected to be released later on Monday.

The Bucks County tornado developed as a line of fast-moving severe thunderstorms moved through the area around 6:46 p.m. Several trees were uprooted and snapped on the southside of Wrightstown. The tornado progressed southeast near Swamp Road, which reported heavy tree and wire damage.

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The maximum wind speed was associated with damage observed on the north side of Newtown Township where a roof façade was blown over at a restaurant in the Village at Newtown shopping center, the weather service said.

"Rough night at Harvest Seasonal Grill Newtown last night," restaurant founder and CEO Dave Magrogan wrote in a Facebook post. "Tornado went through the parking lot. Our employees were safe, our guests were safe but some of the roof landed on our employees cars. Open for normal brunch, lunch, and dinner today! Glad our teams and guests are safe!"

The storm damage also closed part of Swamp Road in both directions between Helen Randle Park, near the BCCC campus and Liberty Drive for most of Sunday, according to Newtown Township police. The road reopened to traffic on Sunday night.

Bucks County Community College reported damage including destruction of an equipment shed, a set of bleachers pushed into a fence at a softball field and a parking lot gate knocked off its mount, Director of Campus Security Dennis McCauley said.

The most significant damage at the college involved toppled trees near the West entrance of the campus, and physical plant employees were checking building roofs for potential damage, McCauley said.

Cleanup of Newtown tornado continued Monday

On Monday morning, damage to trees was visible along Valley View Drive and Parkview Way, which are part of the Tyler Walk neighborhood.

At the corner of Valley View Drive and Parkview Way, a completely uprooted tree laid near the sidewalk.

Contractors were removing trees from properties. The sounds of woodchippers could periodically be heard throughout the morning. Neighbors said trees were knocked down into the street on Valley View Drive on Saturday night. By late Sunday morning, the trees were cleared for neighbors to drive through.

“It made a pretty big mess,” one neighbor said.

Over by the Village at Newtown, where a tornado knocked down a façade from the rear of Harvest Seasonal Grill, things appeared to be business as usual Monday morning.

While the façade needed to be replaced, no other visible damage was apparent at the shopping center.

Additional tree damage was observed in downtown Newtown including the Newtown Fire Association on Liberty Street. The tornado’s path ending near the Newtown Cemetery at Washington Avenue and Elm Street.

On Sunday Bucks County spokesman James O'Malley confirmed reports of wind damage to homes on Skyview Way and the Tyler Walk development, also off Route 413. Residents in the Newtown Township and Lower Makefield areas reported quarter-sized hail.

There were also reports of downed trees on Route 1 westbound between Morrisville and Route 13 exits. Wind damage was also reported in the 200 block Lincoln Highway in Falls, O'Malley said. On Monday morning the NWS was considering sending a damage survey team out to the Levittown area, but those plans were not official.

Across the Delaware River in Burlington County New Jersey, an EF1 twister left a damage path through Moorestown, Cinnaminson and Delran and 100 mph straight-line winds left a one-mile damage path stretching from Palmyra to Riverton. The Weather Service also confirmed tornadoes near Jackson, Ocean County, Howell and Sea Girt in Monmouth County.

At the height of the Saturday night storms, the weather service received more than 100 reports of damage from around the region. PECO Energy reported more than 200 power outages across the Philadelphia region, impacting more than 17,000 customers as of 8 p.m. Saturday. As of Monday morning, PECO reported 14 outages in the L:evittown and Newtown Township areas, and 40 outages systemwide.

The Saturday tornado was the first reported in Bucks County since 2021, when five EF1 tornados and one EF3-rated storm touched down between July and September.

An EF2 tornado also touched down in neighboring Montgomery County during Tropical Storm Ida in September 2021 cutting a wide path of damage in both counties.  Three people died in Montgomery County and one in Bucks County in the Ida related storms.

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This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: Severe thunderstorms brought a tornado to Newtown, Bucks County