Overview
- Traffic-camera footage shows a powerful gust lifting a car across lanes and flipping it into the center median on I-71 at Weber Road, in video recorded Tuesday morning.
- Ohio Department of Transportation press secretary Matt Bruning posted the camera video publicly, making the incident widely visible to officials and the public.
- John Glenn Columbus International Airport logged an 82 mph wind gust minutes after the footage, and officials have not yet reported whether anyone in the vehicle was injured.
- The National Weather Service will carry out field damage surveys that look for damage patterns to determine if a tornado or straight-line winds caused the vehicle displacement.
- The event is part of a larger multi-day wind-damage outbreak that produced nearly 500 reports the previous day and has raised travel and safety concerns across the eastern Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic.