Snow Squalls May Impact New Year's Eve Travel from the Great Lakes to the Mid-Atlantic; Heavy Rain & Isolated Severe Thunderstorms in Southern California

Snow squalls are likely to cross the Lower Great Lakes this evening and the Ohio Valley through the interior Northeast/northern Mid-Atlantic overnight, before potentially reaching the I-95 corridor from D.C. to New York City early New Year’s Day morning. Heavy rain and isolated severe thunderstorms will impact coastal southern California including Los Angeles tonight into early on New Year's Day. Read More >

May 19, 2005
Otway Tornado

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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
143 PM EDT FRI MAY 20 2005

...TORNADO CONFIRMED IN SCIOTO COUNTY...

A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN AT 315 PM ABOUT 5 MILES TO THE SOUTHWEST OF
OTWAY IN WESTERN SCIOTO COUNTY.  THE TORNADO RIPPED THE ROOF OFF A
BARN AND CARRIED IT A HALF MILE TO THE EAST. IT ALSO TWISTED SEVERAL
100 YEAR OLD TREES AND STRIPPED THE TOPS OF SEVERAL OTHER TREES. THE
TORNADO WAS RATED AN F1...WHICH INDICATES WIND SPEEDS OF 73 TO 112
MPH ON THE FUJITA SCALE.  THE TORNADO WAS ON THE GROUND APPROXIMATELY
2 MILES.

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