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EF0 tornado in Ross County, Ohio

Tornado June 10, 2020 · Ross County, Ohio

EF0
Rating
5.9 mi
Path length
300 yd
Path width
$50K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 initially touched down on the south side of County Road 550 (Pleasant Valley Rd) where several barns were heavily damaged with roofing material thrown across the road and into adjacent properties about 1/4 mile downstream. From there, a consistent swath of enhanced tree damage was found along a nearly six mile continuous path across U.S. 35, County Road 125 (Union Lane), Egypt Pike, OH-207, and OH-104. A home and some outbuildings were damaged as the tornado crossed OH-207. With the enhanced swath of damage not found on the east side of the Scioto River, it is expected that the tornado lifted somewhere in the Scioto River flood plain.

The wider storm

An unseasonably deep upper-level system ejected east into the Ohio Valley interacting with a very warm and tropically moist air mass that had settled into the region.

Began near Anderson (39.3786, -83.0791).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 886388. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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