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EF0 tornado in Lorain County, Ohio

Tornado May 12, 2014 · Lorain County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

1.1 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$75K

Damage as recorded

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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

An EF0 tornado touched down in Eaton Township along Butternut Ridge Road and tracked southeast across mainly farmland for a little over a mile. The tornado crossed State Route 83 and lifted just north of Cooley Road. The damage path was up to a 100 yards in width and consisted of mainly downed trees. A couple of buildings lost sections of roofing. No injuries occurred.

The wider storm

On the evening of May 12th a warm front tracking north over Lake Erie, reversed itself and moved back inland over northern Ohio. An organized convective complex with embedded supercells developed over north-central Ohio. Two confirmed tornadoes, one in Medina and the other in Lorain Counties, developed within this supercells. The slow movement of the storms combined with intense rainfall rates produced destructive flash floods across dozens of communities.

Began near Shawville (41.3474, -82.0332).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Medina County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 519638. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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