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EF0 tornado in Champaign County, Ohio

Tornado June 11, 2023 · Champaign County, Ohio

EF0
Rating
0.8 mi
Path length
125 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 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 first damage was noted along South Lincoln Street where a few limbs were downed. From there, as the tornado slightly increased in intensity, the tree damage became more extensive along both North Lincoln Street and North Monroe Street between Pike Street and East 4th Street. Here, numerous large limbs were snapped off with most trees along these streets experiencing some damage. As the tornado exited Christiansburg on the north side of town along South Elm Tree Road, tree damage became less concentrated, but large limbs were still downed, especially along the west side of South Elm Tree Road. The tornado likely lifted in an open field between South Elm Tree Road and North Bollinger Road.

Damage along the tornado path suggested a maximum wind speed estimated at 75 mph.

The wider storm

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

Began near Christiansburg (40.0534, -84.0233).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1094351. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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