A strong tornado touched down in southern Ohio early Saturday morning, the strongest of six confirmed tornadoes in the state during the storm, according to the National Weather Service in Wilmington, Ohio.
The tornado — which was rated as 2 on the Enhanced Fujita or EF scale — struck near the village of South Salem in Ross County, approximately 20 miles west of Chillicothe. It was the most significant of the six confirmed tornadoes in the state, according to the NWS.
A single supercell thunderstorm produced 12 confirmed tornadoes in total across Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The supercell traveled over 300 miles during a nine-hour period between the initial tornado touch down in south-central Indiana and the final one in western Pennsylvania.
Other confirmed tornadoes in Ohio include a second one near South Salem, rated EF0; an EF0 and an EF1 near Hillsboro in Highland County, east of Cincinnati; an EF0 near Frankfort, and an EF1 near Kingston, both in Ross County.
The tornado in South Salem destroyed one house and a gym, the "Buckskin Barbell Club," in the next-door lot.
Other buildings in the neighborhood suffered various degrees of damage. One child sustained minor injuries due to flying glass.
Bill Rhoads, whose home of 23 years was destroyed, he said he wasn't worried.
"Me and my wife never got a scratch, we lived through that in the dark, with rain, and insulation and things flying around, I don't care about the house," he said.
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