EF1 tornado, Jacksonburgh to Astoria, Ohio, February 27, 2023

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

February 27, 2023

Touchdown

2:37 PM EST (19:37 UTC)

Lifted

2:43 PM EST (19:43 UTC)

On the ground

6 minutes

Path length

4.2 miles (6.7 km)

Path width

150 yards (137 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$500,000

County

Butler County

Touchdown point

39.538, -84.504

Lift-off point

39.563, -84.433

Record number

2302271337-01

26 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ILN, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 110 mph.

• Large trailer flipped over into vehicle.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

Showers and thunderstorms developed ahead of a low pressure system moving through the Ohio Valley.

The tornado first touched down near the intersection of Jacksonburg Road and Oxford Middletown Road, where some minor roof and tree damage was observed. Damage was more pronounced at properties along Middletown Eaton Road. Several homes had fascia and shingles removed. One house even lost some plywood underneath the shingles.||The strongest winds occurred at a property on Elk Creek Road, just north of the bridge over Elk Creek. A home on the east side of the road had the roof removed from the second story, with the back wall also failing in the process. This is where the tornado is likely to have been at its maximum intensity, with the degree of damage and structural damage to the home supporting an estimated wind speed of 110 mph. A barn at this property was leveled, with some debris moved slightly west from its original location and other debris strewn downwind to the northeast across a field.||Roof and tree damage was observed at several properties on both sides of West Alexandria Road, with varying degrees of shingle removal, and a few patches of trees with a significant percentage of the trees snapped off. Damage continued east-northeast to Dickey Road, with debris from these properties found as much as a third of a mile away, in a field on the east side of the road.||At one property on Hetzler Road, some minor roof and tree damage was observed. This is believed to be the last damage from the tornado.

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

25 minutes of warning. NWS ILN issued a tornado warning for this county at 19:12 UTC, 25 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 19:45 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 18:29 UTC and running to 20:37 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 16:26 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), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:34 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 2023 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

15 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.