The Kinzua Bridge or the Kinzua Viaduct (/ ˈkɪnzuː /, [2] /- zuːə /) was a railroad trestle that spanned Kinzua Creek in McKean County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The bridge was 301 feet (92 m) tall and 2,052 feet (625 m) long. Most of its …

2023年6月26日 · It has been 20 years since the Kinzua Viaduct/Bridge was blown out by a tornado. Image: Kinzua Bridge Vintage Postcard. Affectionately known as “The Eighth Wonder of the World,” it was one of the tallest railroad bridges in the world at 301 feet high (almost as tall as the Statue of Liberty) and 2,053 feet long.

2003年7月23日 · Meteorologists in State College said the tornado that struck the bridge area hit between 3:15 and 3:30 p.m., had wind speeds up to 100 mph and was 3 1/2 miles long a third of a mile wide. Other news on Tuesday included a declaration by the state naming McKean County as a disaster area.

In 2003, the bridge was struck by a tornado. A large portion of it collapsed, rendering the bridge impassible. From the day the bridge opened, in 1882, it was hailed as “the eighth wonder of the world.” During the bridge’s reconstruction in 1900 many changes and adaptations were made.

On July 21, 2003, a derecho moved across portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and New England. Per the Storm Prediction Center, it spawned 20 tornadoes. The focus of this summary is on one of the most notable tornadoes of this outbreak. It …

2011年9月15日 · On Monday, July 21, 2003, at approximately 3:15 p.m., an F1 tornado (wind speed 73 – 112 mph) struck the side of Kinzua Viaduct. Eleven towers from the center of the bridge were torn from their concrete bases and thrown to the valley floor. Today, park visitors can once again walk a portion of the Kinzua Bridge.

2013年7月20日 · One can only wonder at the power of the tornado which did immense damage to the surrounding forest and effectively blew down 11 of the bridge’s 20 towers. What destroyed something which had stood for so long was a mesoscale convective system (MCS) which is not a single thunderstorm but a collection of them.

At approximately 3:20 p.m. local time, a Class F-1 tornado touched down immediately east of the Kinzua Viaduct, a structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a Civil Engineering Landmark.

The State hired a contractor to rehabilitate the entire structure, but on July 21, 2003 an F-1 tornado, with winds calculated at 94 miles per hour, partially destroyed the viaduct. Eleven of the twenty towers lay in the valley below. To that day, the Kinzua Viaduct was considered the fourth highest in the world.

The Kinzua Railway Viaduct, built by the New York, Lake Erie & Western Railroad, was an iron trestle bridge spanning the Kinzua Valley. It was a critical structure in facilitating the transport of coal from Northwestern Pennsylvania to the Eastern Great Lakes region, and is credited with causing an increase in coal mining that led to ...