EF0 tornado, Dodsonville to Fairview, Ohio, June 4, 2014

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 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.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 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.

7. 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.

Rating

EF0

Date

June 4, 2014

Touchdown

3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)

Lifted

3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)

On the ground

6 minutes

Path length

4.1 miles (6.6 km)

Path width

200 yards (183 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$300,000

County

Highland County

Touchdown point

39.191, -83.820

Lift-off point

39.197, -83.744

Record number

1406041340-01

A warm front lifting across the region combined with an upper level disturbance to produce widespread thunderstorms across the area. A few of these storms became severe with damaging winds and isolated tornadoes being the primary threats. Many storms trained over the same areas repeatedly, increasing the potential for flooding.

The tornado touched down in an open field west of State Route 134, south of Dodsonville. Next to the highway, minor structural damage occurred to a farm building. Heavy tree damage occurred on both sides of Route 134, some of which impacted a home. The tornado continued across the property of Lynchburg-Clay schools. An open-ended storage shed sustained roof removal and partial wall collapse. The high school had a garage door blown out with the interior ceiling collapsing in a narrow hallway. Numerous large branches were snapped on the property, some of which impacted automobiles. Bleachers, a backstop, and other athletic equipment were tossed downstream. A portable toilet was blown over in a northwesterly direction. Debris from damage near Route 134 was also strewn across the athletic fields immediately south of the high school.||Across Dawson Road, a single family home sustained damage to shingles and roofing. A mobile home had a window air conditioner unit blown in from the north and a trampoline was tossed into a tree toward the north. An open-ended, un-anchored garage blew over and collapsed. Numerous large limbs were downed in this vicinity, with one limb breaking the windshield of a car. A narrow path with heavy tree damage clearly indicated where the strongest winds associated with the tornado entered the adjacent woods. Along Dodson Lane, more heavy limb damage occurred. One large limb impacted a garage and truck to the west of Dodson Lane, and another tree limb was blown into a home on the east side of the road. Tree damage was also observed along the tree line behind the homes on the east side of Dodson Lane. On Abernathy Road, an un-anchored large shed was destroyed with debris tossed about 1000 feet downstream. Other outbuildings sustained minor damage, more limbs were downed, and vinyl fencing was blown over. Limb damage was also observed at the edges of field east of the road. Additional tree limb damage occurred on Gibler Road. The last noted damage before the tornado lifted was along the tree line to the east of Gibler Road. Based on the damage surveyed, the maximum estimated wind speed of this tornado was 85 miles per hour.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

10 minutes of warning. NWS ILN issued a tornado warning for this county at 19:30 UTC, 10 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 20:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 18:52 UTC and running to 23:56 UTC.

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 Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 16:30 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 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.

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 25 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:41 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.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2014 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

9 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.