EF2 tornado devastates village in Muskingum County after striking without warning

MUSKINGUM COUNTY, Ohio — The tornado sirens sounded through Muskingum County on Wednesday evening, but soon after, the warning was canceled, and residents like Mike and Virginia Lane headed up for bed.

“One siren went off and then we waited. It was calm but then it started raining and it seemed like it was over so we went to bed because I had to get up for work in the morning and all of a sudden it just came,” Virginia said. “The sirens didn’t go off, they only went off once then they canceled it and we thought we were in the clear.”No warning was issued from the National Weather Service before the tornado struck. The NWS was also caught off guard by the storm.

“Generally what usually happens with these types of situations, we look at the first cell and see if we get any damage from that. And believe it or not, the damage, the rotation we saw from the first cell was greater than what we saw from this one so when we didn’t get any reports from that one. We were assuming this one was on the less severe side,” said NWS Meteorologist David Schallenberger.

The restaurant lost its roof and back wall, and out front a trailer flipped over and debris was scattered everywhere. “Just shock pure shock. I knew that damage could happen but you never think it is gonna happen to you until it does,” said owner Ann Cline.NWS confirms tornadoes touched down in 4 central Ohio countiesWBNS would like to send you push notifications about the latest news and weather.

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