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EF0 tornado in Van Wert County, Ohio

Tornado February 27, 2023 · Van Wert County, Ohio

EF0
Rating
0.6 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$30K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 weak circulation touched down on the north side of Convoy Road

at a residence where two tree limbs fell in a convergent pattern and

debris from a swing set was thrown down the center point of the

path. The outer edge of the circulation also picked up an small,

unanchored chicken coop over a shed, clipping the roof corner and

dropping on the east side . The tornado pushed in the SW side of a

large metal shed and pushing out metal roofing. The tornado

continued across Sycamore St, crossing SR 49 and began weakening

as it move across Hall Dr, producing sporadic tree and shingle

damage. The tornado lifted before reaching Franklin St.

The wider storm

A surface low moving through the Midwest resulted in heavy rain with embedded thunderstorms in the morning along the warm front, followed by afternoon thunderstorms along a cold front. Thunderstorm wind damage was common, with estimated wind gusts of 55-65 mph.

Began near Convoy (40.9171, -84.7159).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1083223. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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