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EF0 tornado in Auglaize County, Ohio

Tornado May 27, 2019 · Auglaize County, Ohio

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
30 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 yards (0.02 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 tornado was captured on video from Waynesfield Goshen High School. The tornado snapped a few small trees with trunk diameters approximately 3 inches or less, located around the front parking lot of the high school near North Westminster Street. The tornado then crossed over the main building in the video and emerged behind the school. The tornado was last seen on the video moving east-southeast away from the school, and no further damage was observed nearby. Since small trees sustained the only visible damage, this tornado was classified as a low-end EF0 with winds of approximately 65 mph.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed during the evening hours along a warm front lifting slowly north across the region. Many of the thunderstorms produced tornadoes, including a few strong to violent tornadoes.

Began near Waynesfield (40.6051, -83.9754).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF4 Montgomery County 1 deadEF3 Mercer County 1 deadEF3 Darke CountyEF2 Montgomery CountyEF2 Hocking CountyEF1 Greene CountyEF1 Auglaize CountyEF1 Darke CountyEF1 Darke CountyEF1 Pickaway CountyEF1 Pickaway CountyEF0 Greene CountyEF0 Miami CountyEF0 Hardin CountyEF0 Auglaize CountyEF0 Miami CountyEF0 Miami County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 818138. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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