Tornado, Wayne
- When
- January 5, 3:20 AM EST to 3:23 AM EST
- Where
- Wayne County, 3 mi N of Kidron
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 40.770, -81.730
Tornado in Ohio, January 5, 1997
A rare winter tornado touched down on a farm on Baumgartner Road, throwing a 40 x 80 foot machine shed through the roof of a barn 300 feet away. A house trailer was knocked off its foundation and the garage door of the house was damaged.
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
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- 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 CLE wrote it up.
A rare winter tornado touched down on a farm on Baumgartner Road, throwing a 40 x 80 foot machine shed through the roof of a barn 300 feet away. A house trailer was knocked off its foundation and the garage door of the house was damaged. Two silos and attached building were also damaged.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Winter Storm in New Mexico, January 5 to 6, 1997
- High Wind in California, January 5 to 7, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- High Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 5, 1997
- Tornado in Georgia, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, January 5, 1997
More
Every storm in Ohio in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Ohio, 1997Warnings in Ohio, January 1997
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: 5588949.