Tornadoes · United States · Ohio · 2024

EF0 tornado, Marne, Ohio, June 5, 2024

This EF0 tornado ran 0.6 miles across Licking County on June 5, 2024, touching down at 10:56 PM EDT and reaching 150 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $15,000 of property damage.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

  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.

The record

Rating
EF0
Date
June 5, 2024
Touchdown
10:56 PM EDT (02:56 UTC)
Lifted
10:57 PM EDT (02:57 UTC)
On the ground
1 minutes
Path length
0.6 miles (1.0 km)
Path width
150 yards (137 m)
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$15,000
County
Licking County
Touchdown point
40.054, -82.309
Lift-off point
40.059, -82.300
Record number
2406052056-01

The damage survey

34 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ILN and NWS PBZ, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EFU. The highest wind the damage implies is 130 mph.

  • 911 call center reported trees down at Claylick and Lesley Road.
  • Toward start. Power pole leaning
  • RV toppled and dragged into W 3rd St. 25-30% of roof removed. Outbuilding destroyed, other outbuildings slid. Wood power pole leaning.
  • Large limbs snapped behind the service station. Service station canopy not destroyed. Service station price sign blown down.

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

What the Weather Service recorded

A cold front moved through the Ohio Valley, causing showers and thunderstorms out ahead of it. Some of the storms produced heavy rain and flash flooding.

A brief tornado is believed to have occurred near Lesley and Claylick Roads, where a swath of concentrated tree and minor structural damage was observed. The damage was congruent with estimated wind speeds around 80 mph.

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

The warnings

22 minutes of warning. NWS ILN issued a tornado warning for this county at 02:34 UTC, 22 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 03:00 UTC.

Issued (UTC)ExpiredProductOffice
22:30 UTC00:37 UTCFlood AdvisoryILN
02:34 UTC03:00 UTCTornado WarningILN
06:18 UTC14:24 UTCFlood WarningILN

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 Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 00:51 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), 00:00Z

2.9 hours before the tornado, 146 km from the path. June 6, 2024.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2024-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 835 joules per kilogram, CIN -3, lifted condensation level 939 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 00:00Z on 2024-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 102 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 32 knots.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
835 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Surface CAPE
2241 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.4
Supercell composite
4.3
0-3 km lapse rate
6.7 K/km

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Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), 12:00Z

9.1 hours after it, 146 km from the path. June 6, 2024.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2024-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 0 joules per kilogram, CIN -98891, lifted condensation level 944 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Cncnati-Daytn, OH at 12:00Z on 2024-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 35 knots.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98891 J/kg
Surface CAPE
82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
944 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
35 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
43 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0
0-3 km lapse rate
5.0 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 148 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 02:55 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)ReportWhereCountyRemark
00:02 UTCTORNADO6 Ne SunburyDelaware, OHEF0 tornado confirmed via video and EMA finding minor tree damage in the area. Estimated wind speed of 65 mph.
00:44 UTCTORNADO7 E CenterburgKnox, OHNWS storm damage survey determined an EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 85 mph impacted the Brandon area. Damage path length is about 3 miles and maximum path width is 80 yards. This LSR denotes the start point of
00:52 UTCTSTM WND DMG7 Ssw Mount VernonKnox, OHDamage to an outbuilding on Possum St, possible tornado.
00:59 UTCTSTM WND DMG6 Ssw Mount VernonKnox, OHLarge tree down near Sycamore Road and Ohio State Route 661.
01:29 UTCTSTM WND DMG2 Se GambierKnox, OHDelayed report, multiple trees down between Lee Wolfe Rd and 229 and on Grove Church Rd. A barn also sustained minor damage.
02:30 UTCTSTM WND DMG2 Nw HebronLicking, OHLarge branches down along Lancaster Road SW.
02:31 UTCTSTM WND DMG2 Nw HebronLicking, OHReport of large branches down. Other yard debris thrown around.
02:35 UTCFLASH FLOOD2 Sw MarengoMorrow, OHWater flowing across I-71 and route 61.
02:56 UTCTSTM WND DMG2 Sw HanoverLicking, OHReports of many trees down in the area of Claylick Road Southeast and Lesley Road Southeast.
02:56 UTCTORNADO3 Sw HanoverLicking, OHNWS survey confirms brief EF0 tornado with estimated wind speed of 80 mph. Track length of 0.6 mile. Damage to trees and minor structural damage.
03:00 UTCFLASH FLOOD1 Nw Mount VernonKnox, OHNumerous roads closed with water flowing over them in Mt. Vernon. Other roads were closed in Gambier and Fredericktown.
04:37 UTCTORNADO1 Wnw FrazeysburgMuskingum, OHStorm survey team confirms a tornado in Frazeysburg. Damage consistent with at least EF1 rating and could be higher pending further investigation. Survey remains on going at this time.
04:38 UTCTSTM WND DMGFrazeysburgMuskingum, OHMultiple trees down. Damage to buildings. Possible injuries.
05:04 UTCTSTM WND DMG1 Ssw Wills CreekCoshocton, OHDelayed Report: 30-40 trees down along Wills Creek.
05:06 UTCTSTM WND DMG1 S FranklinCoshocton, OHA number of trees down across Franklin Township.
05:12 UTCTSTM WND DMG4 Ese Pleasant ValleyCoshocton, OHA number of trees down.

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 June 5, 2024

23 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 58:27 AM CDTEF1Vermilion, IL1.2100
June 51:19 PM EDTEF0Crawford, MI0.390$21,000
June 53:30 PM EDTEF1Wayne, MI5.845012
June 54:04 PM EDTEF0Berkeley, WV0.965$100,000
June 54:29 PM EDTEF0Berkeley, WV1.7110$25,000
June 54:58 PM EDTEF0Jefferson, WV1.3130$50,000
June 55:40 PM EDTEF0Washington, MD0.650
June 56:42 PM EDTEF0Loudoun, VA1.1125$250,000
June 57:01 PM EDTEF1Montgomery, MD8.8150$1.0 million
June 57:27 PM EDTEF1Montgomery, MD15.21505$5.0 million
June 57:42 PM EDTEF0Carroll, MD0.7100$250,000
June 56:43 PM CDTEF1Itawamba, MS to AL3.4300$10,000
June 56:52 PM CDTEF1Fayette, AL7.2325
June 57:59 PM EDTEF2Carroll, MD4.4100$5.0 million
June 57:59 PM EDTEF2Carroll, MD4.4100$5.0 million
June 58:02 PM EDTEF0Delaware, OH0.350$5,000
June 57:06 PM CDTEF1Franklin, AL12.9225
June 58:31 PM EDTEF0Howard, MD0.975$3.0 million
June 58:43 PM EDTEF0Knox, OH3.380$30,000
June 58:45 PM EDTEF1City of Baltimore, MD3.3175$12 million
June 59:01 PM EDTEF0City of Baltimore, MD0.490$250,000
June 59:27 PM EDTEF1Baltimore, MD0.9110$5.0 million
June 512:37 AM EDTEF2Muskingum, OH1.31208

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.