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EF0 tornado in Pickaway County, Ohio

Tornado February 27, 2023 · Pickaway County, Ohio

EF0
Rating
1.4 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$150K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 began south of Darby Creek Road in the Fox Lair Farms neighborhood where two single-wide manufactured homes were flipped on their sides. Minor damage continued through the neighborhood before the tornado crossed Darby Creek Road, damaging a single property. On this property, the garage roof was lifted off the structure and landed on the other side of Darby Creek Road.

The tornado likely crossed Big Darby Creek, however, damage could not be verified due to the lack of accessible roads.

The next area of damage was observed toward the town of Orient, where multiple abandoned structures were damaged at the Pickaway Correctional Institution south of town. This damage was verified through video shared on social media. Most of the structures had large amounts of roof panel loss which was scattered across a nearby field.

The only signs of the tornado in the town of Orient was scattered building insulation found in trees. It is believed that the tornado likely dissipated as it entered Orient.

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms developed ahead of a low pressure system moving through the Ohio Valley.

Began near Harrisburg (39.7889, -83.1773).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Butler CountyEF1 Clark CountyEF0 Licking County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1074033. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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