The National Weather Service has confirmed that a tornado hit the far outskirts of Greater Cincinnati last week.
The tornado ripped through Brown and Adams counties for about eight minutes, from 4:16 p.m. to 4:24 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11., according to the weather service.
The tornado began in far eastern Brown County and stretched into far western Adams County. Classified as an EF1 tornado, it had an estimated peak wind speed of 100 miles per hour. A storm damage survey by the weather service included several uprooted trees, roofs blown away and a collapsed outbuilding.
In Adams County, the tornado had ripped off a sizeable portion of a barn's roof and carried it southeast for 200 yards, into a crop field.
The weather said that they received no
reports of fatalities or injuries. The agency thanked Brown County and Adams County Emergency Management for contributing data to their survey.
Last Tuesday's powerful storm left more than 170,000 in the Greater Cincinnati region without power. The weather service classified the series of thunderstorms as a "derecho," which Cincinnati hasn't seen in over a decade.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Tornado hit just outside Cincinnati area last week, NWS says
