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F1 tornado in Richland County, Ohio

Tornado July 10, 2006 · Richland County, Ohio

Rating

6.0 mi

Whole path

40 yd

Path width

$300K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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 F1 tornado touched down southwest of Pleasant Hill Lake around 3:40 p.m. The tornado tracked east along Pleasant Hill Road and into southwest Ashland County. The tornado had a damage path approximately two miles long in Richland County. This damage path was intermittent and no more than fifty yards in width. A barn was leveled and a grain elevator was destroyed along Pleasant Hill Road. Numerous trees were also down.

Began near Butler (40.6167, -82.3667).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5526556. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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