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EF0 tornado in Fairfield County, Ohio

Tornado February 28, 2024 · Fairfield County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

5.7 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

$60K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 initially touched down in Franklin County at 0548EST, 1 mile south of Groveport. It moved east-northeast and entered Fairfield County at 0552EST, as it moved across U.S. Route 33 in Canal Winchester. The tornado caused minor damage to trees and structures south of Dove Parkway before ending.

The wider storm

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

Began near Waterloo (39.8495, -82.8004).

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 Montgomery County EF1 Franklin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1155955. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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