Straight Line Winds in Pike County, OH

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
541 PM EDT THU MAY 15 2014

...STRAIGHT LINE WIND DAMAGE CONFIRMED NEAR WAVERLY IN PIKE COUNTY
OHIO...

LOCATION...WAVERLY IN PIKE COUNTY OHIO
DATE...05/14/2014
ESTIMATED TIME...5:25 PM EDT
ESTIMATED MAXIMUM WIND SPEED...80 TO 85 MPH
MAXIMUM PATH WIDTH...30 YARDS
PATH LENGTH...300 YARDS
BEGINNING LAT/LON...39.1525N/83.1289W
ENDING LAT/LON...39.1551N/83.1289W
* FATALITIES...0
* INJURIES...0

* THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO
CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENT(S) AND PUBLICATION IN NWS
STORM DATA.

...SUMMARY...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS CONFIRMED STRAIGHT
LINE WIND DAMAGE NEAR WAVERLY IN PIKE COUNTY OHIO ON 05/14/2014.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RESPONDED TO DAMAGE REPORTED BY PIKE
COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND A TRAINED SPOTTER IN THE AREA OF
BUCHANAN WEST OF WAVERLY OHIO. NWS PERSONNEL OBSERVED DAMAGE ALONG
THE 400 BLOCK OF CARL PENN ROAD WHERE A LARGE TREE WAS UPROOTED
AND A LARGE ALUMINUM OUTBUILDING HAD A ROUGHLY 12 FOOT AWNING AND
ABOUT HALF OF THE ROOF AND WOOD BEAM ROOFING STRUCTURE LIFTED OFF
OF THE BUILDING. THE OUTBUILDING WAS ON PROPERTY WHICH WAS ON A
RIDGE MUCH HIGHER THAN SURROUNDING LOCATIONS. ALL OF THE DAMAGE
WAS IN A NORTHERLY DIRECTION...WITH NO INDICATIONS OF BACKSPLATTER
OR ROTATION WITHIN THE ROOFING...STRUCTURAL OR NEARBY TREES TO
INDICATE TORNADIC DAMAGE.

THE HOMEOWNER WAS ALSO INTERVIEWED. HE WAS HOME AT THE TIME OF
OCCURRENCE AND DID NOT WITNESS ANY ROTATION OR GROUND BASED
DAMAGE...JUST THAT HE OBSERVED THE AWNING AND ROOF HAD BEEN LIFTED
FROM THE STRUCTURE. 

THERE WERE SPOTTER REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT ROTATION AND LIKELY
FUNNEL CLOUDS IN THE AREA...BUT THERE WAS NOT A CLEAR
CONFIRMATION OF WHETHER THE FUNNEL MADE CONTACT WITH THE GROUND.
NWS PERSONNEL DID NOT FIND EVIDENCE OF TORNADIC TYPE DAMAGE IN THE
AREA. 

FOR REFERENCE...
STRAIGHT-LINE WINDS ARE GENERALLY ANY WIND THAT IS NOT ASSOCIATED
WITH ROTATION...USED MAINLY TO DIFFERENTIATE THEM FROM TORNADIC
WINDS.

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JDR