Tornadoes · United States · Ohio · 2006
F0 tornado, Hillsboro, Ohio, May 10, 2006
This F0 tornado ran 0.5 miles across Highland County on May 10, 2006, touching down at 6:20 PM EDT and reaching 30 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $30,000 of property damage.
The rating scale
Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.
F040 to 72 mphthis tornado
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.
The record
- Rating
- F0
- Date
- May 10, 2006
- Touchdown
- 6:20 PM EDT (22:20 UTC)
- Path length
- 0.5 miles (0.8 km)
- Path width
- 30 yards (27 m)
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $30,000
- County
- Highland County
- Touchdown point
- 39.200, -83.500
- Lift-off point
- 39.200, -83.500
- Record number
- 520
What the Weather Service recorded
A brief tornado moved along a half mile path just north of Rocky Fork Lake. A restaurant along North Shore Road sustained minor siding damage. A real estate office along North Beach Road had portions of its aluminum roof peeled back or completely ripped off. The most extensive damage occurred to a residence about a tenth of a mile to the north-northeast of the real estate office. The home sustained major roof damage, and had an enclosed patio on its front porch completed removed and strewn behind the home. The majority of the patio was deposited into a deck and above ground pool behind the house, causing additional damage. A few trees between six and twelve inches in diameter were snapped between the real estate office and the residence.
From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.
The warnings
No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.
| Issued (UTC) | Expired | Product | Office |
|---|---|---|---|
| 03:13 UTC | 07:48 UTC | Tornado Watch | ILN |
Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.
The forecast that day
The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 20:01 UTC.
SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.
The air that afternoon
The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), 12:00Z
10.3 hours before the tornado, 36 km from the path. May 10, 2006.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Surface CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
- 0-3 km lapse rate
- 4.9 K/km
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), 00:00Z
1.7 hours after it, 36 km from the path. May 11, 2006.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Surface CAPE
- 176 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 139 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
- 0-3 km lapse rate
- 5.7 K/km
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 37 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 22:22 UTC.
Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track
Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.
What was reported nearby
Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.
| Time (UTC) | Report | Where | County | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22:20 UTC | TORNADO | 6 Ese Hillsboro | Highland, OH | F0 TORNADO JUST NORTH OF ROCKY FORK LAKE. DAMAGE WAS SCATTERED OVER A HALF MILE PATH FROM THE NORTH SIDE OF NORTH SHORE ROAD NORTHEAST TO NORTH BEACH ROAD. TWO STRUCTURES ALONG NORTH BEACH ROAD SUSTAINED HEAVY DAMAGE. TO |
From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.
This ground now
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The other tornadoes of May 10, 2006
19 more were confirmed in the United States that day.
| Date | Time | Rating | Where | Path (mi) | Width (yd) | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10 | 1:40 AM CDT | F1 | Okmulgee, OK | 0.5 | 75 | $70,000 | ||
| May 10 | 10:03 AM CDT | F0 | Dallas, AR | 3.5 | 25 | |||
| May 10 | 3:40 PM EDT | F0 | Kalamazoo, MI | 0.1 | 20 | |||
| May 10 | 2:44 PM CDT | F1 | Marengo, AL | 2.6 | 150 | $20,000 | ||
| May 10 | 4:27 PM CDT | F2 | Catahoula Parish, LA | 8.0 | 250 | $250,000 | ||
| May 10 | 4:35 PM CDT | F0 | Victoria, TX | 0.5 | 75 | |||
| May 10 | 4:35 PM CDT | F0 | Tensas Parish, LA | 2.0 | 50 | $60,000 | ||
| May 10 | 4:59 PM CDT | F0 | Fort Bend, TX | 0.2 | 20 | $2,000 | ||
| May 10 | 5:03 PM CDT | F0 | Adams, LA to MS | 5.0 | 50 | |||
| May 10 | 5:08 PM CDT | F0 | Vanderburgh, IN | 5.2 | 75 | |||
| May 10 | 5:40 PM CDT | F0 | White, IL | 2.5 | 50 | |||
| May 10 | 5:49 PM CDT | F2 | Jefferson, MS | 7.0 | 440 | $120,000 | ||
| May 10 | 5:58 PM CDT | F0 | Posey, IN | 2.5 | 60 | |||
| May 10 | 6:08 PM CDT | F0 | Warrick, IN | 0.2 | 50 | $2,000 | ||
| May 10 | 6:08 PM CDT | F0 | Clarke, AL | 0.1 | 30 | $10,000 | ||
| May 10 | 6:17 PM CDT | F0 | Warrick, IN | 0.2 | 50 | $1,000 | ||
| May 10 | 6:22 PM CDT | F0 | Gibson, IN | 2.7 | 50 | |||
| May 10 | 6:34 PM CDT | F0 | Kenedy, TX | 0.1 | 20 | |||
| May 10 | 6:49 PM CDT | F1 | Dubois, IN | 1.4 | 100 | $150,000 |
What this means
Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.
Sources
NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.