Hello everyone. I know I don't post a lot here and I'm pretty sure I haven't talked a lot about myself or where I live.
I live in Ohio and if you've been watching any kind of news or been following the severe weather that's been hitting, you'll know that Ohio was hit in the middle of the night on Monday- Memorial Day.
At 9 pm, the news center that covers where I live- WHIO / Channel 7 News- broke in and warned us of a severe storm. We had been under a Tornado Watch for a bit and it was set to expire at 2 am. At 10:40 pm, we were upgraded to a Tornado Warning. At first it was set to expire at 11:15 pm. At 11:14 pm, it was extended to 11:45 pm. Shortly after that text was sent out, Montgomery County (which is where I live) was upgraded to the highest level possible- a Tornado Emergency. During this, my cities sirens went off and our Tornado Warning was extended until 12 am and then again until 12:15 am.
In total, 5 Tornados hit us last night; (the following info was taken from my WHIO app)
▪ At 10:41 p.m. -- An EF-3 was confirmed from west of Brookville, through Trotwood to Dayton and to Riverside. It covered 19 miles and was on the ground about 30 minutes. Areas on the south side of Brookville sustained heavy damage. A large number of homes and apartment complexes farther east in Trotwood were affected. The tornado continued southeast through Dayton and Northridge, crossing I-75 and into Old North Dayton where homes and businesses were heavily damaged. As the tornado entered Riverside, damage lessened before the twister lifted just west of the Greene County line.
▪ At 11:12 p.m. -- A tornado with damage as high as an EF-3 hit eastern Montgomery and western/central Greene counties. It covered 10 miles on the ground in about 20 minutes, extending from the Page Manor subdivision in Riverside to along U.S. 68 north of Xenia in Xenia Twp. Several homes along Rushton Drive had entire roofs lifted. Homes along Gardenview and Wendover drives experienced shattered windows, collapsed garage doors and entire roof structures removed. The tornado moved from Kemp Road east-southeast into Beavercreek Twp. The tornado damage ended to the east of U.S. 68 in Xenia Twp., where roof and tree damage occurred north of Clifton Road.
▪ At 11:19 p.m.- An EF-0 was confirmednear Phillipsburg in Miami/Montgomery counties.It covered 3 miles and was on the ground roughly five minutes. The tornado hit a property north of Montgomery County Line Road, just east of state Route 721. Farm equipment, a roof and tree damage to a nearby home was confirmed. Half the roof was ripped off an outbuilding west of Hartman Road. On Diamond Mill road, a grain bin was thrown into a field to the east.
▪ At 11:34 p.m. --An EF-2 tornado hitnortheast Montgomery County. It covered 7.6 miles in about 11 minutes and touched down initially just south of I-70 near Little York and Dog Leg roads, then headed southeast as it picked up wind speeds west of I-75, most notably on Cricket Lane and on Coppersmith Avenue. The tornado continued east while crossing I-75 then began to weaken and lifted in the vicinity of Needmore Road.
▪ The fifth, and probably the first in reality, hit the town of Celina. It was determined to be an EF-3 Tornado and more information on its exact path is being collected.
The following pictures are screenshots that I took to show friends in a discord of just some of the damage that was caused by these Tornados. The final picture is of the Tornado that hit near my sisters.
