Tornado, Highland
- When
- April 2, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Highland County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 220 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 39.070, -83.850
Tornadoes in Ohio, April 2, 1977
5 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 6
- Property damage
- $5.1 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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
5 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Brown
- When
- April 2, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 220 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 39.000, -83.720
Tornado, Richland
- When
- April 2, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Richland County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3.8 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.920, -82.500
Tornado, Ashland
- When
- April 2, 8:28 PM CST
- Where
- Ashland County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3.8 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 6 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 40.930, -82.420
Tornado, Cuyahoga
- When
- April 2, 8:57 PM CST
- Where
- Cuyahoga County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 177 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 41.380, -81.430
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, April 2, 1977
- Tornadoes and Hail in Wisconsin, April 2, 1977
- Tornadoes in Mississippi, April 2, 1977
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, April 2, 1977
- Tornado in New York, April 2, 1977
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, April 2, 1977
- Hail in Pennsylvania, April 2, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, April 2, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, April 2, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Georgia, April 2, 1977
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: 10098180, 10098181, 10098182, 10098183, 10098184.