EF0 tornado, Clinton County, Ohio, July 21, 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

July 21, 2026

Touchdown

3:09 PM EDT (19:09 UTC)

Lifted

3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)

On the ground

4 minutes

Path length

3.4 miles (5.4 km)

Path width

75 yards (69 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Clinton County

Touchdown point

39.415, -83.674

Lift-off point

39.400, -83.615

Highest wind the damage implies

75 mph

Surveyed by

NWS ILN

The office's name for it

Lees Creek OH

Survey last edited

July 28, 2026

Record number

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

The first evidence of tornadic damage was observed at a single family residence off of Henry Rd, where a hardwood tree was snapped and fell onto the roof of the home. Additionally, the field adjacent to the home had some flattened corn stalks, with minor tree damage also observed across the street. More flattened corn stalk was found in a field near the intersection of Henry Rd and State Highway 729.

The most significant damage came along Larrick Rd, with several properties observing tree damage. One property in particular had six trees that were either uprooted or snapped at the base. Wind speeds in this area were likely near 75 MPH, which corresponds to EF-0 strength on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

The last observed damage came on Larrick Rd where a tree was uprooted and additional corn stalk was partially flattened. No other visible evidence was observed to the south and east of this property.

The National Weather Service would like to thank the Clinton County Emergency Management Agency for their assistance with this storm damage survey.

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

4 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 76 mph.

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

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 16:18 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), 15 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 15 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:09 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.

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35 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.