July 12 1992: A DAY TO FORGET!!!

The 28 tornadoes that occurred in Ohio on Sunday, July 12, 1992, went into the record books as the most recorded in a single day. They also contributed to the July 1992 record of 44 tornadoes in one month and a record annual total of 61 tornadoes. Fortunately, summer tornadoes tend to be weaker than spring storms and none of the 44 tornadoes during July 1992 were violent. This contributed to the absence of fatalities and only 36 injuries from the record number of tornadoes.
One line of damage from the July 12 th tornadoes stretched across northwestern Ohio from Fulton County to Sandusky. Several buildings were damaged and 8 people injured by a tornado near Pettisville. Another tornado cut a swath from north of Waterville across the Maumee River to near Perrysburg. Anthony Wayne High School was damaged and Toledo Express Airport closed for several hours by loss of power, large hail, and 66 mph winds. Visitors to Cedar Point Amusement Park received extra thrills when their motels were heavily damaged by a tornado near the intersection of Routes 2 and 250 in Erie County. Farther to the east, numerous tornadoes destroyed buildings and flattened trees in Lorain, Cuyahoga, Portage, and Medina Counties. A tornado in Summit County did over $1 million dollars damage to industries and homes in Stow and Cuyahoga Falls.

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[newcrusade101]

@reptile1000

Haha, me too.

[reptile1000]

i was born on this day haha

[iglpole84]

I was working @ C.P. and the storm came on suddenly and all of us workers, utilized the safety protocols. Very scary day, and yah" want to forget it" comes to mind

So, everytime I see a tornado, I go into "fight or flight" mode and now I really save lives, I became a nurse.

[FourTwennyTHC]

This is my birthday too

[BrownWolverine]

We were driving through the storms producing these twisters as we traveled through Indiana and back home to Toledo. We got inside our house about 5 minutes before the power went out. I'll never forget the sky in the west. BLACK clouds with streaks of green and pink!

[ShesHalfAPerson]

That's when I was born.

[PeculiarStranger]

I think I was 7 when that happened, too. I was on Co. Rd. 19, just across from 20A. That was the first time I saw a tornado. We were at the Delta Chicken festival that day, and we had just gotten home when it happened. After it happened, we rode through Pettisville. It blew out the windows at the Essen Haus. I don't think I'll ever forget that tornado. That really scared me!

[punishedexistence]

I remember when this happened as well, although I was on vacation with my parents in Washington DC, I remember they were talking about this down there. When we got back, the yard was covered in branches and leaves, many trees looked damaged, but, houses looked fine all around, which was good.

Still, I remember weather being much more severe back then. Now, the occasional storm gets violent, but nothing out of this world. I better watch what I say, I don't want to vex the area!

[jschwind435]

I remember this. I was 7 when it happened. We were at Cedar Point that day! We drove through tornados all the way home. When we got back to the toll booth on 108 we asked how the storms were here and she told us a tornado went straight through Pettisville. We all about crapped ourselves because my parents house right there by County Rd. 18 and Route 2... We had A LOT of debris in our yard but the house was fine. We had sales receipts from the old paint store on co rd 19... Simply amazing.