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EF0 tornado in Clinton County, Ohio

Tornado April 3, 2025 · Clinton County, Ohio

EF0
Rating
10.6 mi
Whole path
250 yd
Path width
$48K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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

This tornado began in Brown County near U.S. Route 68, just to the northeast of Fayetteville at 0017EST. The tornado traveled northeast across far northwest Highland County and entered Clinton County at 0022EST, just south of Wise Road. On Wise Road, large tree limbs were blown down and siding and shingles were removed from one home. The tornado then moved back into Highland County at 0023EST, just southwest of Lynchburg before quickly ending near Lynchburg, where some tree damage was noted on State Route 134.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed during the late evening and continued into the overnight hours as a strong low pressure system lifted northeast through the Ohio Valley.

Began near Jonesboro (39.2250, -83.8360).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1243111. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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