Details released late Tuesday reveal the twister had wind speeds of 100-105 miles per hour, and the tornado’s path was 75 yards wide.
It hit the home on Baltimore-Phillipsburg Road at approximately 2:16 p.m.; no one was home or injured at the time it hit. The surveyors cited debris thrown as far as 300-400 yards away.
The Campbell family spent Tuesday cleaning up debris on their property. A tarp covers the area where the roof once was.
“This is my wife and I’s first home,” said Tim Campbell. “We’ll get in back in shape.”
Photographs and video taken by a drone shows the path of the tornado as it made its way across a corn field.
Another barn and shed on another property along Arlington Road was also damaged significantly.
UPDATE @ 6:05 p.m. 3/14/16:
The National Weather Service confirms an EF1 tornado touched down in Phillipsburg, Ohio.
FIRST REPORT
Several barns and homes were damaged in the area of Phillipsburg and Clay Twp. in Montgomery County from afternoon storms.
In total, tornado warnings were issued for areas of Montgomery, Miami, Darke, Shelby and Preble counties.
A barn was leveled on Arlington Road near Blank Road in Phillipsburg, Montgomery County.
Bill Blumenstock, of Arlington Road, said his family’s barn was completely destroyed in the storms. He described the storm as sounding like a freight train.
“It just lifted it up and spit it back down like it was sticks,” he said.
Blumenstock said the storm was moving fast. He was at a farm down the street when the storms hit.
“I was just watching it on the news and I walked out of the house and I saw it come out of the sky,” Blumenstock said. “I saw it hit the neighbor’s house, took the roof off.”
Blumenstock said his destroyed barn had been part of his family for 100 years.
“It could have been a lot worse,” he said.
Phillipsburg in February 2014 had a confirmed EF0 tornado. The National Weather Service has not yet determined today's storms were tornados.
Nearby on Baltimore Phillipsburg Road a home had its roof torn off by strong winds.
Steve Woolf, Clay Twp. trustee, lives across the street from the home on Baltimore Phillipsburg Road that had its roof blown off.
Woolf had been in the basement with his wife and dogs during the first tornado warning. As they came upstairs, the second tornado warning was issued.
“All the sudden a big train sound came through here,” Woolf said, as he saw his neighbor’s roof coming right for his home.
“You never think it’s your stuff,” Woolf said.
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