F1 tornado — Wood County, Ohio

F1 tornado in Wood County, Ohio

Tornado June 14, 2000 · Wood County, Ohio

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado touched down a few miles west of Pemberville along State Route 105 and near the north branch of the Portage River. The tornado moved in a west to east direction for several hundred yards along the river. The observed damage path was approximately 25 yards in width. The roofs of two businesses were torn off by the tornado. One of the roofs landed 500 feet away from the building it came from. Many trees were blown down and several signs were sucked out of the ground. One home was damaged by a fallen tree and a second tree crushed a nearby car. A small stretch of the Portage River was clogged with fallen trees.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5151642. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F1 tornado in Wood County, Ohio

What the National Weather Service wrote

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