Vandalia Tornado VIdeos: Powerful Halloween Storm Rips Through Ohio Town, Cost of Damages Unknown [VIDEO]
A storm which ripped through the town of Vandalia Ohio Thursday has been confirmed as an EF-1 tornado by the National Weather Service, as townspeople try to pick up the pieces left in the storm's wake.
The tornado, which struck around 2:00 a.m. October 31, wreaked havoc by producing winds of 100-110 mph, and caused extensive damage to several building structures, which are now deemed unsafe after the storm touched down for approximately a half-mile's distance for five minutes.
"It was like a bomb, we didn't expect it," Joey Freels, a patron at Fricker's Restaurant who was watching the Cincinnati Bengals game when the storm hit, said.
WDTN, the local NBC affiliate in nearby Dayton reported that at least four businesses and 10 homes were affected by the tornado, including Fricker's, the now leveled B-Jas Beverage Drive-Thru, and historical bar, Bruno's Den.
"She called and said we're all out of a job. There is no building. And I cried," Linda Oswald, a bartender from Bruno's told ABC News 22 about the phone call she received from her boss after the storm affected the 60 -year-old bar.
The tornado ripped off the building's roof and left the front wall barely standing.
The storm was part of a series of severe storms that made their way through the mid-western states this week, though this is the most severe one reported thus far.
