Tornado, Scioto
- When
- May 4, 4:30 PM EST to 4:50 PM EST
- Where
- Scioto County, Mc Dermott to Minford
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 15 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.830, -83.070
Tornado in Ohio, May 4, 1996
A tornado moved from McDermott through Lucasville to Minford ripping a roof off a mobile home, and destroying a barn. Moderate damage occurred to two other mobile homes and some store windows were blown out.
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
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS ILN wrote it up.
A tornado moved from McDermott through Lucasville to Minford ripping a roof off a mobile home, and destroying a barn. Moderate damage occurred to two other mobile homes and some store windows were blown out. Power lines and 40 trees were knocked down leaving 1000 homes without electricity.
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:32 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Flash Flood in Ohio, May 4, 1996
- Hail in Florida, May 4, 1996
- Hail in Florida, May 4, 1996
- Tornado in Ohio, May 4, 1996
- Flash Flood in Ohio, May 4, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, May 4 to 5, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 4, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 4, 1996
- Hail in Missouri, May 4, 1996
- Flash Flood in West Virginia, May 4 to 5, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, May 4, 1996
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, May 4, 1996
More
Every storm in Ohio in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Ohio, 1996Warnings in Ohio, May 1996
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: 5558771.