Planting season is fast approaching and Warren Taylor is glad his planter was not inside a barn at his 1520 Township Road 200 farm.
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Warren Taylor looks over a pile of rubble that was his main barn. Windshear from the thunderstorms late Sunday night most likely leveled the 40-by-72-foot barn built in 1901. (EXAMINER PHOTO | JOEL E. MAST) |
“It would be hard to replace it at this time of year,” he said while surveying the pile of rubble that once was his barn.
Overnight storms hit Logan County and the Taylor barn, built in 1901, was most likely leveled by windshear from the thunderstorms as no weather observers noted sustained high winds.
Mr. Taylor and his wife, Celynn, were inside their farm house when the storms began around 11:30 p.m.
Mr. Taylor got up to check to make sure his porch windows were closed and he saw white sheet metal instead of the typical red metal siding of his barn.
Large chunks of the barn’s roof structure were lying along the pile of rubble from the now destroyed 40-by-72-foot barn.
Now he has to develop a plan to carefully remove the debris to gain access to his tools in the shop portion of the barn and then move ahead with replacing the structure.
It will be another issue to juggle this spring as he prepares to plant about 150 acres.
Logan County Sheriff’s dispatchers reported limited damage to trees and poles that affected electrical service to county residents.
At 8 a.m., Dayton Power & Light Co. was reporting 65 customers without power.
Logan County Electric Cooperative reported less than 10 customers were affected overnight. Service was restored to all by 4 a.m.
Weather observer Wayne Wickerham did not see any sustained high winds. Equipment at the Bellefontaine Regional Airport also did not record unusually high winds.
Mr. Wickerham said the isolated overnight damage most likely came from windshear, a microscale meteorological phenomenon that can accompany thunderstorms.