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F1 tornado in Licking County, Ohio

Tornado July 26, 1997 · Licking County, Ohio

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

$10K

Crop damage

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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 briefly downing a few trees and damaging corn crops.

The wider storm

A warm front which was across central Ohio at peak heating on the 26th became the focus for a Mesoscale Convective System that lasted well into the early morning hours on the 27th. Severe thunderstorms moved repeatedly over the same areas causing substantial damage. The continuous rainfall also caused flash flooding in Licking county. Over 400 homes received damage from the combined severe thunderstorm and flooding event.

Began near Croton (40.2200, -82.7200).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5612303. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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