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EF0 tornado in Clark County, Ohio

Tornado February 7, 2019 · Clark County, Ohio

EF0
Rating
7.5 mi
Path length
150 yd
Path width
$40K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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

The first instance of damage was found along East Jackson Road,

where one tree was snapped. Damage continued along East Jackson

Road with an awning lifted off a house and lifted into a tree

behind the house. In addition, the gutter was pulled off the house

and was found lying over the roof. Approximately 200 yards to the

northeast of this damage, a barn was destroyed, with metal

roofing blown in multiple directions. Another larger barn lost a

wall due to wind damage.

Damage was also found to the northeast on Selma Pike where the

Pitchin Fire Department experienced minor roof damage exhibited by

numerous roof shingles blown off to the southeast of the

structure. An eyewitness at an adjacent residence stated he saw a

tornado cross over Selma Pike. Further northeast, damage was also

found along Old Springfield Road where two uprooted evergreen

trees were noted, and several large limbs had been tossed in

multiple directions.

On Limerick Road, one uprooted deciduous tree was observed. Then,

on East Pitchin Road between Ridge Road and Craig Road, a large

tree was snapped off.

Along Craig Road, a two story home lost multiple shingles, which

were found scattered across an adjacent field. In addition,

multiple second story soffit boards had been blown off. Further

down Craig Road, another residence had siding removed from the

storm and a large tree was blown down. Near where Craig Road

intersects with Old 70 Road, a barn was blown over, and metal

roofing was found scattered into neighboring property, including

one six foot piece found impaled into the siding of a house.

On Old 70 Road, multiple trees were blown down, and multiple roofing

shingles from a house were blown off. One of these shingles

was wedged into the window framing on the northeast-facing side of

the house. Along Fletcher Pike, a few trees were also observed to

be blown down.

The last damage seen along the track was on Newlove Road. Here, a

metal barn roof was lifted and thrown into an adjacent field. This

was the apparent end of the tornado.

The wider storm

Several waves of low pressure moved along a stalled front, bringing a prolonged period of heavy rain. An isolated tornado also occurred as a convective segment moved through.

Began near Pitchin (39.8280, -83.7941).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 797876. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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