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EF0 tornado in Richland County, Ohio

Tornado August 9, 2007 · Richland County, Ohio

EF0
Rating
0.8 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
$150K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

A storm survey was conducted and an EF0 tornado was confirmed in Shelby. The tornado touched down at a factory on the west side of the town. The factory sustained some roof damage and had a masonary wall partially collapse. From the factory, the tornado continued through residential neighborhoods causing only intermittent damage. A couple dozen trees were downed along the damage path which was about three quarters of a mile long and no more than 20 yards in width.

The wider storm

A frontal boundary was oriented west to east across central Ohio. The surface frontal boundary, in combination with upper level atmospheric support, allowed for severe thunderstorms to develop across the region. Many of the thunderstorms that day were severe, and even a few tornadoes developed across northern Ohio.

Began near Shelby (40.8800, -82.6500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Medina CountyEF1 Ashland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 55554. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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