EF0 tornado, Pitchin to Royal, Ohio, February 7, 2019

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

February 7, 2019

Touchdown

3:17 PM EST (20:17 UTC)

Lifted

3:23 PM EST (20:23 UTC)

On the ground

6 minutes

Path length

7.5 miles (12.1 km)

Path width

150 yards (137 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$40,000

County

Clark County

Touchdown point

39.828, -83.794

Lift-off point

39.890, -83.673

Record number

1902071417-01

Several waves of low pressure moved along a stalled front, bringing a prolonged period of heavy rain. An isolated tornado also occurred as a convective segment moved through.

The first instance of damage was found along East Jackson Road,|where one tree was snapped. Damage continued along East Jackson|Road with an awning lifted off a house and lifted into a tree|behind the house. In addition, the gutter was pulled off the house|and was found lying over the roof. Approximately 200 yards to the|northeast of this damage, a barn was destroyed, with metal|roofing blown in multiple directions. Another larger barn lost a|wall due to wind damage.||Damage was also found to the northeast on Selma Pike where the|Pitchin Fire Department experienced minor roof damage exhibited by|numerous roof shingles blown off to the southeast of the|structure. An eyewitness at an adjacent residence stated he saw a|tornado cross over Selma Pike. Further northeast, damage was also|found along Old Springfield Road where two uprooted evergreen|trees were noted, and several large limbs had been tossed in|multiple directions.||On Limerick Road, one uprooted deciduous tree was observed. Then,|on East Pitchin Road between Ridge Road and Craig Road, a large|tree was snapped off.||Along Craig Road, a two story home lost multiple shingles, which|were found scattered across an adjacent field. In addition,|multiple second story soffit boards had been blown off. Further|down Craig Road, another residence had siding removed from the|storm and a large tree was blown down. Near where Craig Road|intersects with Old 70 Road, a barn was blown over, and metal|roofing was found scattered into neighboring property, including|one six foot piece found impaled into the siding of a house.||On Old 70 Road, multiple trees were blown down, and multiple roofing|shingles from a house were blown off. One of these shingles|was wedged into the window framing on the northeast-facing side of|the house. Along Fletcher Pike, a few trees were also observed to|be blown down.||The last damage seen along the track was on Newlove Road. Here, a|metal barn roof was lifted and thrown into an adjacent field. This|was the apparent end of the tornado.

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

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

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 Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:36 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), 49 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:15 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 2019 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

4 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.