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EF0 tornado in Paulding County, Ohio

Tornado May 7, 2024 · Paulding County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 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

Emergency management sent drone footage which shows scoured dirt through a freshly plowed field along road 166 between road 191 and Ohio 66. The track terminates near a large metal outbuilding which lost some roof panels.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms produced severe tornadoes and damaging wind gusts on the afternoon and evening of May 7. Large hail occurred in Indiana and Michigan, while three tornadoes were documented in Ohio.

Began near Oakwood Bauer Fld Ar (41.1605, -84.3897).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Paulding County EFU Putnam County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1167158. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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