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EF0 tornado in Van Wert County, Ohio

Tornado May 30, 2008 · Van Wert County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

$60K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Adams County, Indiana → Van Wert County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 touched down near the Adams county, Indiana and Van Wert county, Ohio line. It proceeded across State Line Road and destroyed 2 closed, steel doors on a barn. The tornado dissipated over open field. Damage is estimated at $60,000 to the barn. No injuries were reported.

The wider storm

A moderately unstable, sheared environment was in place across northwestern Ohio ahead of a cold front. The atmosphere remained capped until the evening hours, when storms began to develop rapidly with a few becoming severe. The severe storms were confined south of a Paulding to Leipsic line. A tornado touched down in the Glandorf area with other areas seeing straight-line wind damage.

Began near Wren (40.8381, -84.8025).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Putnam County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 95320. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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