Tornado in Pendleton County - June 4, 2008

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH

...EF0 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN NORTHEAST PENDLETON COUNTY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON HAS DETERMINED THAT 
DAMAGE NEAR PEACH GROVE IN NORTHEAST PENDLETON COUNTY WAS CAUSED BY 
A WEAK TORNADO ON WEDNESDAY EVENING...JUNE 4 BETWEEN 615 PM AND 625 
PM. MUCH OF THE DAMAGE WAS FOUND ON EITHER SIDE OF STATE ROUTE 10 
JUST NORTH OF PEACH GROVE. A HOUSE ON THE WEST SIDE OF STATE ROUTE 
10 HAD SIDING RIPPED OFF AND GARAGE DOOR DAMAGE. A FEW LARGE HAY 
BARNS WERE HEAVILY DAMAGED ACROSS ROUTE 10 FROM THE HOUSE. ONE OF 
THE BARNS SUSTAINED SEVERE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE WITH THE ROOF TAKEN OFF 
AND ALL OF THE OUTSIDE WALLS BLOWN OUT. DEBRIS FROM THE ROOF WAS 
FOUND SCATTERED TO THE EAST OF THE BARN. BOTH BARNS APPEARED TO BE 
OLD AND POORLY CONSTRUCTED. 

THE MOST EXTENSIVE DAMAGE TOOK PLACE AT A RESIDENCE JUST NORTH OF 
THE AFFECTED BARNS ON THE EAST SIDE OF ROUTE 10. THE PROPERTY HAS 
TWO GARAGES...ONE ATTACHED TO THE HOUSE AND A STANDALONE GARAGE... 
BOTH OF WHICH SUSTAINED DAMAGE. THE GARAGE DOOR ON THE STANDALONE 
GARAGE WAS BLOWN INWARD...WITH A BACK DOOR BLOWN OUT INTO THE YARD 
BEHIND THE STRUCTURE. TOOLS INSIDE THE GARAGE WERE BLOWN OUT THE 
BACK AND STREWN ACROSS THE YARD. A METAL TRAILER PARKED BETWEEN THE 
SOUTH SIDE OF THE WEST FACING GARAGE AND AN ADJACENT STONE WALL WAS 
PICKED UP AND PLACED BEHIND (OR TO THE EAST OF) THE GARAGE 
PERPENDICULAR TO ITS ORIGINAL POSITION. NO DRAG MARKS WERE EVIDENT 
IN THE GROUND...INDICATING THE TORNADO CLEANLY PICKED UP THE 
TRAILER. ADDITIONAL DAMAGE TO THE HOME INCLUDED AN INTERIOR DOOR 
FRAME BLOWN INWARD INTO THE KITCHEN. ITEMS IN THE KITCHEN WERE 
STREWN AS A RESULT OF THE WINDS. NUMEROUS DECIDUOUS TREES WERE 
UPROOTED AND BROKEN THROUGHOUT THIS AREA. IT APPEARS THERE WERE TWO 
BRIEF TOUCHDOWNS IN THIS AREA...WITH THE TOTAL DAMAGE PATH ACROSS 
STATE ROUTE 10 ABOUT A HALF MILE LONG. ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS WITH 
THIS TORNADO WERE AT 80 TO 85 MPH...CONSISTENT WITH THE HIGH END OF 
THE EF0 CATEGORY.