How many tornadoes in Ohio so far in 2025? Here's the National Weather Service total
At this point in 2024, Ohio had already tied its all-time tornado record at 62, which was set in 1992. The record-breaker came on June 29, before the first half of that year had concluded, as the Buckeye State sailed to its new yearly tornado record of 74.
Yes, 2024 was the worst year for tornadoes in state history. They killed three people, displaced more than a thousand others, destroyed nearly 175 homes and caused millions of dollars in damages. And that was just from the tornadoes and storms on one day.
How has 2025 compared? Here's what the data from the National Weather Service shows.
According to data provided by the NWS office in Wilmington, which covers Central and Southwest Ohio, the state has had 18 tornadoes through June 9. Breaking those down into EF categories by wind speeds, those include:
An EF1 tornado (on the Enhanced Fujita Scale) on March 30 in Fayette County on the ground for 3.91 miles.
An EF0 tornado in Warren County on March 30 that traveled 3.05 miles.
An EF0 tornado in Butler County on March 30 on the ground for 6.89 miles.
An EF0 tornado in Butler and Warren counties on March 30 that traveled 11.71 miles.
An EF0 tornado in Franklin County on March 30 on the ground for 2.58 miles.
An EF0 tornado on April 2 in Brown, Highland and Clinton counties that traveled 7.86 miles.
An EF1 tornado on April 2 in Van Wert and Putnam counties on the ground for 15.61 miles.
An EF2 tornado on April 2 in Paulding and Putnam counties that traveled 4.5 miles.
An EF0 tornado on April 2 in Clinton and Fayette counties on the ground for 9.3 miles.
An EF1 tornado on April 2 in Van Wert County on the ground for 0.81 miles.
An EF0 tornado on April 2 in Clinton County that traveled 2.7 miles.
An EF0 tornado on April 3 in Sandusky County that traveled 0.72 miles.
An EF0 tornado on April 3 in Warren County that traveled 8.7 miles.
An EF0 tornado on April 3 in Warren and Montgomery counties on the ground for 3 miles.
An EF0 tornado on April 3 in Butler County that traveled 10.96 miles.
An EF0 tornado on April 25 in Darke County that was on the ground for 0.1 miles.
An EF0 tornado on June 5 in Stark County that traveled 0.15 miles.
An EF1 tornado on June 9 in Holmes County that traveled 1.32 miles.
In Ohio, tornado season peaks between April and June, according to the National Weather Service.
Kristen Cassady, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio, said previously that it is typical for severe weather frequency to ramp up in Ohio at the beginning of March. However, March is not a peak tornado season month.
'We typically do see severe weather events including tornadoes in the month of March, even though there is a slightly higher frequency climatologically in April and May,' Cassady said. 'March is still one of the primary months for tornadoes in the Ohio Valley.'
After suspected tornadoes are spotted, crews from the National Weather Service survey possible tornado damage in person.
The pattern of damage, not how much damage was caused, determines whether it was a tornado, according to the weather service. For tornadoes, with their violently rotating columns of air, damage often has a chaotic appearance, with larger uprooted trees often crossing each other. Weather service surveyors often look at larger uproots of trees to get a true idea of where the wind was blowing from.
The Enhanced Fujita Scale classifies tornadoes into the following categories:
EF0: Weak, with wind speeds of 65 to 85 mph
EF1: Weak, 86 to 110 mph
EF2: Strong, 111 to 135 mph
EF3: Strong, 136 to 165 mph
EF4: Violent, 166 to 200 mph
EF5: Violent, greater than 200 mph
There is also an EF Unknown ranking, "a final caveat that has been added adjacent to the scale in recent years," the Weather Channel reports. It rates a tornado sighted and documented by storm chasers or the public, but no damage can be found when the area is later surveyed.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: How many tornadoes has Ohio seen so far in 2025? Weather service total
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