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List of Ohio tornadoes. Tornadoes in the U.S. state of Ohio are relatively uncommon, with roughly 16 tornadoes touching down every year since 1804, the year with the first ever event in the state. [1] Many of Ohio's tornadoes are violent, and there have been four recorded F5 or EF5 Tornadoes in Ohio's history.
The tornado tearing through the southeast Pinecrest Garden district. The 1974 Xenia tornado was a violent F5 tornado that destroyed a large portion of Xenia and Wilberforce, Ohio, United States on the afternoon of April 3, 1974. It was the deadliest individual tornado of the 1974 Super Outbreak, the 24-hour period between April 3 and April 4 ...
The 1924 Lorain–Sandusky tornado was a deadly F4 tornado which struck the towns of Sandusky and Lorain, Ohio on Saturday, June 28, 1924. It remains the deadliest single tornado ever recorded in Ohio history, killing more people than the infamous 1974 Xenia and 1985 Niles-Wheatland tornadoes combined.
Ohio's tornado season considered to be April through June, according to the National Weather Service. However, tornadoes can and have happened in every month of the year. However, tornadoes can ...
It's official. 2024 is now the worst year in Ohio history for tornadoes.. The Buckeye State's 63rd tornado of the year touched down on Saturday in the City of Willard in Huron County, about 26 ...
On April 21–24, 1968, a deadly tornado outbreak struck portions of the Midwestern United States, primarily along the Ohio River Valley. The worst tornado was an F5 that struck portions of Southeastern Ohio from Wheelersburg to Gallipolis, just north of the Ohio– Kentucky state line, killing seven people and injuring at least 93.
XENIA, Ohio (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE — On April 3, 1974, a fierce tornado barreled through Xenia, Ohio, without warning, killing 32 people, injuring hundreds and leveling half the city of 25,000.
The second-largest tornado outbreak on record at the time, this deadly series of tornadoes, which became known as the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, inflicted a swath of destruction from Cedar County, Iowa, to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and a swath 450 miles long (724 km) from Kent County, Michigan, to Montgomery County, Indiana.