On Tuesday, June 2, 1998, one of the most significant tornado outbreaks in recent history hit the east-central United States. The severe weather event spawned a total of 33 tornadoes in nine states from New York to South Carolina and caused an estimated $40 million in damage, 80 injuries and 2 fatalities. For Pennsylvania in particular, it was the second historic and deadly severe weather outbreak in three days, as it immediately followed the late-May 1998 tornado outbreak and derecho on May 30–31, 1998, which spawned 41 tornadoes over New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Vermont, causing an estimated $83 million in damage, 109 injuries and 1 fatality.