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F0 tornado in Fayette County, Ohio

Tornado October 13, 1999 · Fayette County, Ohio

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$30K

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 F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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 touchdown flipped over several pontoon boats, destroying at least one. Several utility poles and trees were knocked down along with well-anchored signs being ripped off of a local business.

The wider storm

A cold front pushed east from Illinois and Indiana during the afternoon hours and combined with a vigorous upper level disturbance that dropped into the Ohio Valley from the lower Great Lakes region. These factors prompted a squall line to develop ahead of the cold front that moved southeast through the Wilmington Ohio (ILN) county warning area before entering northeast Kentucky and southeast Ohio.

Began near Pancoastburg (39.6200, -83.2700).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Pickaway County F0 Ross County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5722405. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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