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EF0 tornado in Defiance County, Ohio

Tornado July 1, 2023 · Defiance County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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

EF0 landspout tornado briefly touched down north of Sherwood, Ohio. About two dozen slate shingles were removed from a barn. Also, a large limb and several small limbs were downed. The tornado tracked through a nearby cornfield and dissipated as it tracked northeast into a wooded area.

The wider storm

Developing showers and thunderstorms produced a brief landspout north of Sherwood, OH.

Began near The Bend (41.3200, -84.5527).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1130466. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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