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EF1 tornado in Licking County, Ohio

Tornado March 14, 2024 · Licking County, Ohio

EF1
Rating
35.4 mi
Whole path
500 yd
Path width
$1.5M
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 developed at 2001EST, about 3 miles south of Delaware, and moved east southeast across Delaware County. It entered Licking County at 2021EST, about 4 miles west-southwest of Hartford, where the damage path remained quite wide and was likely a complex mix of straight-line winds on the immediate southern flank of the tornadic circulation. However, the damage was very consistent with wind speeds ranging from 90 to 100 mph across most of Licking County. Along this entire stretch of the damage path, the damage was a combination of partial roofs removed on some homes, barns completely destroyed or heavily damaged, widespread trees uprooted and snapped, and power poles snapped.

The tornado dissipated between State Route 13 and Horns Hills Road south of St. Louisville.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed in an unseasonably warm and humid airmass ahead of an approaching cold front.

Began near Hartford (40.2110, -82.7560).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Logan County 3 deadEF3 Randolph County 1 deadEF2 Union CountyEF1 Mercer CountyEF1 Mercer County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1167943. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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