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EF0 tornado in Fairfield County, Ohio

Tornado July 17, 2022 · Fairfield County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

6.0 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

Injuries

$260K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Pickaway County → Fairfield County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The tornado initially touched down in Pickaway County at 1505EST, about 1.1 miles north of Haysville. It moved east northeast and crossed into Fairfield County, north of Tarlton Road. Sporadic and minor damage occurred to trees north of Tarlton Road before lifted

near Dozer Road and Valentine Road Southwest. Additional tree damage to the northeast along 16th Road Southwest was considered straight-line winds.

The wider storm

Showers with embedded thunderstorms developed ahead of a low pressure system moving through the Great Lakes region.

Began near Stoutsville (39.5617, -82.8429).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1035785. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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