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EF0 tornado in Montgomery County, Ohio

Tornado February 28, 2024 · Montgomery County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

2.4 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$510K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Montgomery County → Greene County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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 tornado first touched down in far northeast Montgomery County, near dwellings located just south of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Large hardwood branches were broken near the intersection of Mitchell Drive and Spinning Road. Minor tree damage continued across Airway Road into portions of the Wright Field Airport, where it crossed into Greene County at 0438EST. The tornado continued east-northeast into Greene County before lifting near Wright State University at 0441EST.

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms developed during the early morning hours ahead of a cold front moving through the Ohio Valley.

Began near Eastview (39.7698, -84.1095).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Clark County EF2 Franklin County EF1 Franklin County EF0 Franklin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1154221. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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