The National Weather Service sent meteorologists out to conduct a storm survey Friday near Phillipsburg and confirmed that an EF0 tornado touched down there Thursday night.
The NWS said the tornado hit at about 10:55 p.m. in the area of Pansing Road, damaging a barn, power lines and a garage.
The estimated maximum wind speed was 85 mph and the tornado cut a 1-mile long path that was 100 yards wide at its maximum width.
Todd Shobe, with the NWS in Wilmington, explained Friday morning how their meteorologists perform a damage survey.
"What we're looking at is how the damage is arranged. And what the path of the damage looks like," he said. "From that, combined with our radar data, we're gonna see if we had just kind of a leading edge straight line wind or if we had a tornado."
Friday morning he said the initial assessment seemed to show a path of damage.
"It does not seem at this point that the debris is divergent or spreading apart," he said.
A call for wires down led firefighters to discover significant damage to a barn and power lines ripped down from debris on Pansing Road near Phillipsburg Thursday night.
Firefighters responded to the 10000 block of Pansing around 11:30 p.m., a short time after a line of storms with a tornado warning attached moved through the area.
"We heard something go through. I don't know if it was a tornado or straight line winds, but it was really loud," said Jeff Rench, who lives at the home where the damaged barn was located. "We stepped outside and couldn't believe what we seen."
Rench said a door from the barn came to a rest in a tree about 10 feet from the home.
A large tree near Rench's house also was downed during the storm and just missed hitting his home.
Assistant Fire Chief Matt Rhoades, Phillipsburg Fire Department, said the damage was apparent as soon as his crews arrived on the street.
"When [the debris] came off the barn it grabbed ahold of DP&L wires and telephone wires and ripped them down,"Rhoades said.
Rhoades said the fire department treats any wires down as being active and potentially dangerous, so about a mile of Pansing Road was shut down until Dayton Power and Light could respond to repair the problem.
An estimated 12 to 15 homes had the power knocked out and Rhoades said he's not sure when the power will be restored.
Additional storm damage was reported along Sweet Potato Ridge Road just west of Ohio 49 and along Brookville-Phillipsburg Road.
A detached garage was destroyed at a home in the 9900 block of Brookville-Phillipsburg.
Numerous trees were also reported down.
No injuries were reported as a result of the storm in the Phillipsburg area, according to the assistant chief.