EF1 tornado, Edgetown to Middleboro, Ohio, June 23, 2016

1. EF065 to 85 mph

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

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   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

EF1

Date

June 23, 2016

Touchdown

3:03 AM EDT (07:03 UTC)

Lifted

3:31 AM EDT (07:31 UTC)

On the ground

28 minutes

Path length

20.7 miles (33.3 km)

Path width

250 yards (229 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$360,000

Crop damage

$10,000

County

Warren County

Touchdown point

39.535, -84.114

Lift-off point

39.367, -83.793

Record number

1606230103-01

A mesoscale convective system developed across Illinois and worked east then southeast across the region during the early morning hours of June 23rd.

The tornado first touched down at a campground on State Route 73 near Waynesville. At this location, trees were snapped, platform tents damaged, mattresses thrown, and there was evidence of a tornadic circulation in the grass. The tornado path continued southeast across U.S. Route 42 south of Waynesville with snapped trees. Barn damage occurred at a residence off of North Clarksville Road, where large sections of metal roofing were uplifted and barn doors were blown in. Trees on the property were snapped and were facing in a convergent pattern. Additional tree damage continued down North Clarksville Road. More trees were snapped near Caesar Creek Lake south of Harveysburg and also on Harveysburg Road.|Southeast of Interstate 71 on Doster Road, two homes sustained damage. There was loss of roofing material and the winds made one side of the house bulge outwards. Debris splatter was present on several sides of a home. Trees were uprooted and snapped in this area. The brick wall of a barn collapsed, while sections of roof were uplifted from barns. |The path continued southeast, where tree damage occurred along Hadley Road and South Clarksville Road. In the Ogden area off of Ogden Road, several trees were snapped. A tree also fell on a home in this area. There was again evidence of a tornadic signature with leaf debris on all sides of a barn. Trees and power lines were down along the path on Linkhart Road. |Off of State Route 730, some mobile homes were damaged, while several trees were snapped and a tree was uprooted. In addition, there was a convenience store that sustained loss of roofing materials with only some of the wooden beams remaining on part of the structure. Insulation was plastered to all sides of the building. Finally, a house lost portions of its metal roof while a barn incurred damage to its siding.|On Mcguinn Road, multiple houses sustained damaged. One home had extensive siding damage, the partial loss of a wall and roof damage, while insulation was plastered against several sides of the building. A small shed was destroyed and debris was tossed into a nearby field. The foundation of one garage was shifted slightly. At another residence, the two of the three sides of the garage were gone with the garage door pushed in. There were some subtle indications that damage continued into the crops in the field. Finally, a large shed lost half of the roof and fence damage occurred to a nearby property. |South of Wilmington along U.S. Route 68, trees and power poles were damaged. The tree damage continued on East Dalton Road, Cuba Road, Ireland Road, and onto Berlin Road. Also on Berlin Road, a house lost a portion of the roof and a garage door was pushed inward. Damage occurred to another home on Leslie Drive, were there was partial loss of the roof and insulation was plastered against the house on all sides. On Brown Road, a tree was uprooted and part of the roof of a barn was uplifted. |On State Route 134 a shed was blown and tossed off of the foundation. Items were tossed far into a field. At another location, there was evidence of tornadic circulation in the grass. Multiple barns sustained damage, with damage to the roofs and walls. Silos were tossed into a field. The house had glass that was broken and was sticking into an interior wall of the house. The house also had damage to part of the roof. Several trees were also snapped at this location. |At the end of the path off of Crouse Road, a barn was destroyed and a silo was damaged. Tree damage was observed in a field.

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

0 minutes of warning. NWS ILN issued a tornado warning for this county at 07:03 UTC, 0 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 07:23 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 02:33 UTC and running to 10:52 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 Enhanced Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 06:00 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), 12 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 07:05 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 2016 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

3 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.