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EF0 tornado in Paulding County, Ohio

Tornado March 31, 2023 · Paulding County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

$30K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

Brief EF0 tornado develops south of Road 424 and tracks rapidly

north, crossing the Maumee river. Several homes with minor roof

and siding damage. Numerous trees uprooted and snapped along this

path.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developing in the evening of March 31 resulted in multiple weather hazards. Trees were downed and property was damaged from thunderstorm wind gusts. In the days that followed, storm damage surveys teams confirmed multiple tornadoes has moved through.

Began near Knoxdale (41.2016, -84.6876).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1086304. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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