WEST SUNBURY — Neighbors in a quarter-mile block of Route 308 were shaking their heads Tuesday in disbelief at the rearranging job a weak tornado did to their West Sunbury Road properties the night before.

One family's swing set was moved a yard away. Another family's back porch was relocated to a cornfield. And the roof of a one-time gas station? Well, parts of that were in trees, on the neighbor's roof and up to a mile and a half away near the Dassa McKinney Elementary School.

The 900-pound sandstone and brick marquee sign that advertises Eshenbaugh Insurance was toppled.

“It took six of us to set that,” said owner Kevin Eshenbaugh.

The damage, severe and centralized, was limited to buildings, trees and outdoor amenities like a gas grill and a carport. No one was hurt.

“And really, that is what's most important,” said Reid Campbell, chief of the West Sunbury Fire Department.

The fire department responded to the scene where the short-lived tornado hit about 9:30 p.m. and carried winds of 60 to 80 mph.

“It was over almost as quick as it came,” said Ellen Pry, 82.

Pry said she was in her night gown and slippers when a little rain knocked out her electricity, so she decided to do a word search.

“I heard a woosh, and I knew something fast was coming so I shut the front door,” she said.

Although Pry's home suffered only minor damage, just about everything surrounding her house was insufferably damaged.

In front of her house, a one-time gas station that's been used as an apartment in recent years, was destroyed. The roof flew off. The walls were knocked out. The foundation bricks flew into neighboring yards and trees.

“I'm really pretty lucky,” she said, noting the swing set in her yard doesn't really belong to her.

By morning Pry — who has nine sons, two daughters, 36 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren — had mobilized the family to demolish the building and clean up the significant debris.

“They're finding insulation from my roof out by the school,” she said. “And one of my concrete blocks went into the neighbor's roof.”

At that house, 10-year-old Chaz Nagy said his father heard the tornado approaching “like a freight train” and told him to go to the basement.

“But then it was just done. It was over that quick,” he said.

In addition to the roof damage, the family's back porch was ripped off and the garage doors were caved in.

At Jackie Eiler's house on the other side of the road, a metal garage was uprooted and moved from the backyard to the front yard. Flower pots were shattered and roofing material dotted the otherwise manicured yard.

And just yards away a camper home that Eiler's son was in remained untouched.

“I'm blessed,” Eiler said.

Frank McMullen, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service, said it's not unusual for tornado damage to be tightly contained.

This tornado has been classified as an EF0, which is the lowest on a scale that goes up to 5.

McMullen, who visited the properties Tuesday morning, said in other parts of Butler County and region there was up to 2 inches of rain but little storm activity.

“It wasn't a day we expected a tornado,” McMullen said, noting there wasn't even much lightning that evening. “But it only takes one cell.”

McMullen said pressure remaining from a storm earlier in the afternoon might have collided with the evening storm increasing the wind shear.

“Western Pennsylvania averages four tornadoes a year. Butler County got two of them,” McMullen said.

On June 28, an EF0 tornado touched ground in the area of Chaparral Drive in Cranberry Township.

No one was hurt then. Officials reported more than a dozen trees were uprooted in its path.