UPDATE: 14 Memorial Day tornadoes confirmed; 1 upgraded to EF-4

Source: Dayton Daily News

(UPDATE @ 5:35 p.m. May 30): The National Weather Service has confirmed that 14 tornadoes touched down on Memorial Day evening and into the next day, and the one that hit Trotwood-Brookville-Riverside and Dayton has been upgraded to an EF-4, according to NWS investigators who are continuing to survey damage across the Miami Valley region.

Read more: https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/ef3-tornado-confirmed-beavercreek/vjklb2LUNZvmtyj78jNaZN/

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This is the latest count of the tornadoes that hit Dayton and the Miami Valley.

A friend of mine had come over about midnight on Memorial Day. He, like us, was without power and bored. We had no idea where the damage was, but we were all safe, and our homes undamaged. Yesterday, I paid him a visit and noticed that a line of power transmission towers were bent in half several hundred feet behind his home. Those are the monsters that look like this:



I only live a few blocks from him and the sight of those towers shook us both.

It's remarkable that there was only one death as a result of this night of terror. The destruction, however, including nearly 200 injuries, is devastating.

Stay well, fellow Daytonians.