EF0 tornado, North Hamilton Arpt to Wellman, Ohio, March 30, 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

March 30, 2025

Touchdown

8:52 PM EDT (00:52 UTC)

Lifted

9:06 PM EDT (01:06 UTC)

On the ground

14 minutes

Path length

11.7 miles (18.8 km)

Path width

200 yards (183 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$265,000

Counties

Butler and Warren counties

Touchdown point

39.356, -84.383

Lift-off point

39.355, -84.165

Record number

2503301852-01

86 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.

• Gutter damage to a few houses
• Some flashing off of building and a power pole was down
• Side wall garage blown out
• Several houses on this street lots of siding and shingle damage.

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 Great Lakes region, bringing showers and thunderstorms.

Tornadic damage was first observed near Hamilton Eaton Road, just north of New Miami, Ohio and traveled northeast. The tornado caused substantial roof and siding damage to several mobile homes and moved at least two others from their foundation. There were also numerous trees either uprooted or with their tops snapped through this area. The tornado then continued along Trenton Road and Hawkins Road, where additional tree damage was noted. From there, the tornado crossed Wayne Madison Road, where several power poles were snapped. ||Additional damage to outbuildings was noted along Woodsdale Road. The tornado then moved across the Great Miami River and caused damage to several homes in a subdivision just east of Hamilton Middletown Road. Homes on and near Hailey Lane, Michelle Lane, and Hollybrook Drive were also damaged with peeled off shingles and flashing, along with portions of roof removal. Numerous trees were also downed in this area. The damage after this subdivision became much more sporadic in nature so the tornado likely dissipated beyond this point.

The tornado developed in West Chester, near the intersection of Tylersville Road and Lady Anne Drive, where some trees were downed and minor house damage occurred. From here, the tornado traveled east across Interstate 75, causing sporadic tree damage before moving across VOA Park. In the park, an outbuilding was toppled and several soccer goals were scattered throughout the grounds. The tornado then crossed Butler Warren Road and entered Warren County at 1953EST, between Tyler Court and Clover Drive. The tornado continued east across Warren County before ending just west of Morrow at 2006EST.

The tornado initially began in Butler County at 1952EST, near the intersection of Tylersville Road and Lady Anne Drive. The tornado traveled east and entered Warren County along Butler Warren Road, between Tyler Court and Clover Drive at 1953EST. From here, the tornado continued due east and affected numerous subdivisions along a narrow path through the central part of Mason. The majority of the damage in these areas included uprooted trees and broken tree limbs, along with minor roof and siding damage to several homes. ||The tornado crossed I-71, near the Kings Mills exit, and caused a few trailers to be overturned at an RV Resort. As the tornado continued east, it downed numerous trees along Kings Mills Road and through the town of Kings Mills. The tornado then crossed the Little Miami River and continued to cause sporadic tree and minor house damage in a narrow path across the subdivisions along both side of State Route 48. One house to the east of State Route 48 suffered a partial wall collapse of its garage. ||The tornado continued east along U.S. Route 22, causing spotty tree and home damage before ending just west of the Little Miami Junior High School.

The tornado first produced damage near the Little Miami River between Oregonia and Corwin, where numerous trees were snapped or had large limbs broken off. The tornado continued east-northeast, where it uprooted several trees and did significant damage to a barn along O'Neall Road. The barn had its roof completely torn off along with damage to one exterior wall. The tornado then continued near Caesar Creek Lake Visitor Center, where several trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado likely dissipated beyond this point.

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

16 minutes of warning. NWS ILN issued a tornado warning for this county at 00:36 UTC, 16 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 01:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 22:45 UTC and running to 01:10 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 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 19:39 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), 40 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:49 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

42 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.