Tornado, Miami
- When
- May 22, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Miami County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.900, -84.200
Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Ohio, May 22, 1959
2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Warren
- When
- May 22, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Warren County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.500, -84.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Montgomery
- When
- May 22, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County
- Coordinates
- 39.780, -84.180
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in Oklahoma, May 22, 1959
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 22, 1959
- Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 22, 1959
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Indiana, May 22, 1959
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, May 22, 1959
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 22, 1959
- Damaging Wind in New York, May 22, 1959
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 22, 1959
- Damaging Wind in Florida, May 22, 1959
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10085604, 10085605, 10085606.