EF0 tornado, Warren County, Ohio, August 1, 2026

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, as surveyed

EF0, preliminary

Date

August 1, 2026

Touchdown

8:23 PM EDT (00:23 UTC)

Lifted

8:28 PM EDT (00:28 UTC)

On the ground

5 minutes

Path length

1.8 miles (2.9 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Warren County

Touchdown point

39.547, -84.332

Lift-off point

39.567, -84.311

Highest wind the damage implies

80 mph

Surveyed by

NWS ILN

The office's name for it

Franklin OH

Survey last edited

August 4, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

The National Weather Service has confirmed an EF0 tornado in Franklin in Warren County, Ohio.

Southwest of Franklin, several large tree limbs were downed along Hamilton-Middletown Road and State Route 73. As the tornado moved northeast, more tree damage was noted on Dayton-Oxford Road, and a segment of a corn field near Water Source Drive was flattened. Just northeast of Water Source Drive, one large metal building at an industrial facility had a large portion of a northwest-facing wall removed, along with a portion of the roof. Damage at this location supported wind speed estimates of 80 MPH, the highest wind speeds from this tornado.

Several tree limbs were downed in a neighborhood near Forest Ave, Chestnut Street, and Park Ave. One house on Park Ave had some siding damage.

The National Weather Service would like to thank the Warren County Emergency Management Agency for their coordination.

Written by NWS ILN in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

23 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 80 mph.

• Corn stalk flattened, carport destroyed, two trees down at 909 Snyder.
• Jefferson Township Fire Chief relayed that an outbuilding at this retail location was destroyed. Additionally, photos show less than 20% roof loss with panels lifted from a brick building.
• Vinyl siding ripped from home and other side paneling damage.
• Field scouring/flattened corn leading up to intersection of S Snyder and Forney Rd.

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

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.

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 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 19:56 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.

Middletown (MWO), 7 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:22 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 2026 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

7 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.