EF0 tornado — Licking County, Ohio

EF0 tornado in Licking County, Ohio

Tornado February 27, 2023 · Licking County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

90 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 90 yards (0.05 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

A brief tornado occurred along Watkins Road SW, between Interstate 70 and US Route 40. Damage was very localized and consisted mostly of snapped or uprooted softwood trees. Despite the lack of numerous damage indicators, several trees were uprooted in a cross-directional orientation, nearly perpendicular to the direction of the tornado's movement northeast. These trees, in combination with low elevation radar data from the TCMH Terminal Doppler Radar, provided enough evidence to support the determination of a tornado. Any damage further to the southwest or northeast of the

damage on Watkins Road SW was either minimal or inconsistent to extend the track for this tornado.

The wider storm

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

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1074034. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Licking County, Ohio

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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