EF0 tornado, Fayetteville to Lynchburg, Ohio, April 2, 2025

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

April 2, 2025

Touchdown

1:17 AM EDT (05:17 UTC)

Lifted

1:24 AM EDT (05:24 UTC)

On the ground

7 minutes

Path length

7.9 miles (12.7 km)

Path width

250 yards (229 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$43,000

Counties

Clinton, Highland and Brown counties

Touchdown point

39.199, -83.930

Lift-off point

39.240, -83.793

Record number

2504022317-01

21 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ILN, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 85 mph.

• Barn flattened. Debris thrown across the field to the east. Probable tornado.
• Large tree fell into home (from Warren EMA).
• Siding removed from house wise rd
• Large tree uprooted near U.S. 22.

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

Thunderstorms developed during the late evening and continued into the overnight hours as a strong low pressure system lifted northeast through the Ohio Valley.

The tornado began near U.S. Route 68, just to the northeast of Fayetteville, where a barn was destroyed. Barn debris was thrown into a field just to the northeast. Numerous trees were knocked over, snapped or uprooted on the Chatfield College property and trees were also downed along Brown County Inn Road. The tornado then entered Highland County at 0020EST, just north of Brown County Inn Road. From here, the tornado continued across Highland County, into Clinton County and then back into Highland County, before ending near Lynchburg at 0024EST.

The tornado began on Chaney Road, barely on the Clinton County side of the county line, where roof damage was observed on an outbuilding. On Weisflock Road, a barn was overturned and large tree limbs were knocked over. The last damage was observed on Oakgrove Road, where a barn was destroyed and tree damage was noted.

This tornado began in Brown County near U.S. Route 68, just to the northeast of Fayetteville at 0017EST. The tornado traveled northeast and entered Highland County, just north of Brown County Inn Road at 0020EST. Across far northwest Highland County, the tornado crossed primarily farmland, so there was little visible damage. However, as the tornado entered Clinton County at 0022EST, just south of Wise Road, some tornadic tree damage was observed. The tornado then traveled briefly across far southeast Clinton County, and then back into Highland County before quickly ending near Lynchburg at 0024EST.

This tornado began in Brown County near U.S. Route 68, just to the northeast of Fayetteville at 0017EST. The tornado traveled northeast across far northwest Highland County and entered Clinton County at 0022EST, just south of Wise Road. On Wise Road, large tree limbs were blown down and siding and shingles were removed from one home. The tornado then moved back into Highland County at 0023EST, just southwest of Lynchburg before quickly ending near Lynchburg, where some tree damage was noted on State Route 134.

This tornado began in Brown County near U.S. Route 68, just to the northeast of Fayetteville at 0017EST. The tornado traveled northeast across far northwest Highland County and far southeast Clinton County before entering back into Highland County, just southwest of Lynchburg at 0023EST. The tornado ended shortly thereafter near Lynchburg, where some tree damage was noted on State Route 134.

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.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 01:15 UTC and running to 06:40 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 0.10 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 00:55 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.

Wilmington (ILN), 23 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 05:18 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 2025 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

87 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

All 88 of them

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.