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NWS confirms tornado struck Plum, Murrysville on Sunday

The National Weather Service confirmed a tornado touched down in Plum and Murrysville on Sunday.

An EF-1 tornado – with maximum winds of 90 mph – occurred early Sunday morning, the NWS said Tuesday on Facebook.

"Our windows started shaking and it sounded like a train was coming through for about five or 10 minutes or so," said Mike Haracznak, who lives along Hialeah Street in Murrysville. "Oh yeah, it was scary."

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The tornado’s path was about 2.5 miles long and moved along Saltsburg Road.

This is the only the seventh November tornado since 1950 in Western Pennsylvania, although it’s the second this month. An EF-1 tornado touched down in Erie on Nov. 5.

"There was a Spruce tree probably about 50-70 years old, uprooted and toppled," Haracznak said. "There was a magnolia tree split in half."

He showed Channel 11 the damage a few doors down where there is still debris everywhere.

Another house has yellow caution tape blocking off the porch because the aluminum awning that once covered the porch was blown off and found mangled in the yard.

"I was amazed. I mean, I'm not surprised though, just with the noise and sounds it made, but I didn't know it was that strong," Haracznak said. "We usually don't see that that often."

People all along the street told Channel 11 they even lost power.

It wasn't restored until Sunday afternoon - so that meant they spent much of the day with no heat and some of them lost food in their refrigerator.