F1 tornado — Wood County, Ohio

F1 tornado in Wood County, Ohio

Tornado November 10, 2002 · Wood County, Ohio

Rating

4.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$850K

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 southwest of Jerry City and then moved northeast for approximately four and a half miles before dissipating. Seven homes sustained varying degrees of roof damage and three garages were destroyed on the southwest side of Jerry City. To the northeast a few hundred yards, the city maintenance garage was leveled. As the tornado exited Jerry City, it knocked a house off of it's foundation. From Jerry City, the tornado moved northeast across open farmland and destroyed a large barn as it crossed Huffman Road. A home on Bloomdale Road was slightly damaged with the tornado finally lifting near Reynolds Road just north of State Route 281. Several vehicles were destroyed by this tornado and hundreds of trees downed along the damage path which was no more than 50 yards in width.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5322146. 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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