EF1 tornado, North Hampton to Moorefield, Ohio, July 19, 2025

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

July 19, 2025

Touchdown

9:35 PM EDT (01:35 UTC)

Lifted

9:44 PM EDT (01:44 UTC)

On the ground

9 minutes

Path length

2.8 miles (4.5 km)

Path width

175 yards (160 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$200,000

County

Clark County

Touchdown point

39.994, -83.782

Lift-off point

40.007, -83.732

Record number

2507191935-01

17 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 100 mph.

• Crop damage to corn on both sides of Shrine Road.

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

A low pressure system moved through the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region, lifting a warm front through the area, which brought an influx of moisture and warmth. Showers and thunderstorms developed, causing instances of flooding and severe weather.

The first evidence of this tornado occurred on Johnson Road east of Folk Ream Road, where several large trees had branches snapped off and multiple smaller trees were snapped along their trunks. The tornado continued northeast, where it caused significant damage to corn fields along and east of Shrine Road. The tornado is believed to have dissipated east of Shrine Road.

The tornado is believed to have first formed on the west side of Derr Road, where a tree was downed onto a camper. The tornado then continued east, where some minor structural damage was noted along with numerous trees downed. The tornado moved northeast, where the most significant damage was observed north of Moorefield Road, along Ridgewood Road West, Waltin Lane, and Midland Road. Two homes had large portions of their roofs removed, with one section of a roof thrown across the road and into the backyard of another property. Additional debris was lofted and thrown into multiple trees. Finally, shingle damage was noted on numerous homes and tree damage was widespread through this neighborhood. The tornado continued northeast of Ridgewood Road East, where the damage became more limited and sporadic. Of note, several trees and multiple large tree limbs were downed on Middle Urbana Road, Windy Ridge Drive, and Morris Road. The tornado is believed to have dissipated beyond this point.

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.

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 01:00 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), 65 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 01:36 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

5 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.