Tornado, Darke
- When
- July 2, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Darke County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 6.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.100, -84.550
Tornadoes in Ohio, July 2, 1978
3 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $75,000
- 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
3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Miami
- When
- July 2, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Miami County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 21.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.070, -84.430
Tornado, Brown
- When
- July 2, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.7 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.920, -83.900
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
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 2, 1978
- Tornado in Arkansas, July 2, 1978
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 2, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, July 2, 1978
- Hail in Nebraska, July 2, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 2, 1978
- Hail in North Dakota, July 2, 1978
- Tornado in South Dakota, July 2, 1978
More
Every storm in Ohio in 1978Every state in 1978This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Ohio, 1978
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: 10099933, 10099934, 10099935.