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EF0 tornado in Fayette County, Ohio

Tornado April 3, 2025 · Fayette County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

9.1 mi

Whole path

350 yd

Path width

$90K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 350 yards (0.20 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 developed in Clinton County at 0029EST, near Reed Road and State Route 72. The tornado traveled east-northeast and entered Fayette County at 0032EST, just east of Greenfield-Sabina Road at 0032EST. As it continued to move east-northeast, a roof was removed from a barn on Miami Trace Road. More tree damage was noted along Snow Hill Road and Bunkerhill Glendon Road. A silo was damaged on Staunton Jasper Road before the tornado ended.

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 Good Hope (39.4700, -83.5830).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Franklin County EF0 Warren County EF0 Warren County EF0 Brown County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1243707. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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