Masonry Damage and Modeling

On June 13, 2018, at approximately 10:00 PM, an EF-2 tornado passed over Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, causing an estimated $18,000,000 in property damages and severely impacting commercial and retail buildings within its 600-foot-wide (183 meters) by 2.9-mile-long (4.7 kilometers) path (Figure 1). Losses to affected buildings ranged from complete or partial collapse to superficial damage to the fenestration. …