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EF0 tornado in Butler County, Ohio

Tornado May 7, 2024 · Butler County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

8.0 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 started in Franklin County, Indiana, at 1956EST, just to the east of Brookville Lake. The tornado moved east and entered Butler County Ohio, at 2008EST, about 5 miles south-southwest of Oxford. The tornado quickly weakened and ended just east of State-Line Road, near Springfield Road, where it caused some minor tree damage.

The wider storm

Showers and thunderstorms developed during the late afternoon and evening hours ahead of a low pressure system moving through the Ohio Valley.

Began near Newkirk (39.4460, -84.8170).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Mercer County EF2 Mercer County EF1 Darke County EF1 Butler County EF1 Warren County EF1 Warren County EF0 Butler County EF0 Warren County EF0 Clinton County EF0 Licking County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1172538. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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