SOUTHERN OHIO Tornado damages property but leaves people uninjured

ASSOCIATED PRESS
A tornado caused hit-or-miss property damage and uprooted trees in southern Ohio on Thursday, but there were no injuries.
A warmer, drier weather system moved into the state on Friday on the heels of storms that brought rain, hail, high winds and the confirmed tornado in Brown County on the state's southern border.
The National Weather Service said Friday that a survey team determined that the tornado touched down Thursday evening just northeast of Macon, near the Adams County line, ripping the front porch off a house and downing trees and power lines.
The damage was fairly isolated, authorities said.
Donna Young's front porch was blown about 50 feet from her house in rural Brown County.
"It was a nice, railed, country covered porch," she said. The storm "came from the south and just picked the porch to take out."
Tornado warnings had been listed for several counties in southern Ohio. The one that hit Brown County brought winds estimated at 65 to 85 mph, the Weather Service said.
Northeast of Brown County, the storm dropped hail the size of quarters on Highland County, said meteorologist John Franks in the Weather Service's Wilmington office. Penny-sized hail fell in Shelby County in western Ohio, where the storm also knocked down trees and power lines, Franks said.
In Pike County in southern Ohio, a man from Waverly reported that the storm tore the roof off his barn, uprooted trees and turned over the propane tank on his property, the sheriff's office said.
Young said that she and her husband and three teenage children went into the basement as the storm approached about 6 p.m. Thursday.
"By the time we came back up, we just noticed there's no front to our house," she said.
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