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EF0 tornado in Allen County, Ohio

Tornado April 1, 2023 · Allen County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$30K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Allen County → Allen 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

A tornado briefly touched down, damaging a barn and carrying the

debris to the ENE. Maximum winds were around 75 mph with a width

of 50 yards.

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 Westminster (40.6579, -83.9895).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Allen County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1086306. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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