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F2 tornado in Delaware County, Ohio

Tornado September 20, 2000 · Delaware County, Ohio

Rating

21.0 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injuries

$2.0M

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 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 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 in the southeastern part of the county, along Harlem road and then raced rapidly eastward to the Licking county line. Two high tension power line towers were bent over and 14 houses were either damaged or destroyed.

Began near Harlem (40.1333, -82.8333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F4 Greene County 1 dead

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5175229. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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