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F2 tornado in Greene County, Ohio

Tornado July 2, 1997 · Greene County, Ohio

F2
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
300 yd
Path width
$50K
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 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 brief tornado developed in the apex of a bow echo that moved across the county. A house was blown off its foundation and moved 35 feet away.

The wider storm

A low pressure system with an unusually strong mid and upper level jet streak was moving across the Great Lakes with an associated cold front moving across the upper Ohio valley. Thunderstorms developed across Indiana and moved into West-Central Ohio around mid-afternoon with a distinct bow echo causing wind damage from near to Lima to southeast of Columbus. On the southern edge of the first line of storms, a supercell developed over Central Indiana. This storm evolved into a bow echo and swept across the Dayton metro area causing extensive wind damage and a brief tornado in Greene county. Another supercell developed near Cincinnati and moved southeastward along the Ohio River. This storm produced the F3 tornado in Clermont county.

Began near New Jasper (39.6800, -83.8200).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Clermont CountyF0 Franklin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5611996. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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