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Cincinnati Tornado Rated as EF-3, Officials Still Assessing Damage (click title to entry - thank you)Full power to be restored by Saturday
Alicia Agent Web Producer
December 31, 2010, 5:50 p.m.

The National Weather Service has confirmed that a deadly tornado that ripped through Cincinnati in Washington County was an EF-3....


"Enhanced Fujita Scale" (click here)

F3 (Severe)

136–165 miles per hour winds (219–266 kilometers per hour)

Entire stories of well-constructed houses destroyed; severe damage to large buildings such as shopping malls; trains overturned; trees debarked; heavy cars lifted off the ground and thrown; structures with weak foundations are badly damaged.