BATAVIA TOWNSHIP - Strong winds snapped off the upper two-thirds of a 300-foot radio tower here Sunday afternoon,ssending it smashing through the roof of a youth mental health center.

        No one was in the Wasserman Youth & Adolescent Center at that time, and there were no injuries.

        The tower damaged one classroom, said Joanne Laubisch, center director. There is no estimate yet of the cost of repairs.

        The Wasserman Center, located on Clermont Center Drive, houses a school program for youths needing psychological treatment.

        The building will be repaired so that it's ready for the school year beginning Aug. 26, Ms. Laubisch said.

        The tower was knocked down about 4:30 p.m.

        About the same time Sunday, high winds damaged two hangars and a small plane at the Butler County Regional Airport.

        The storm tore off about 25 percent of one hangar's roof.

        But Ron Davis, airport administrator, said the airport had already planned to tear down the hangar within the next year.

        Another hangar had a small portion of its roof torn off. Mr. Davis said he has no damage estimates yet.

        The tower, owned by the Clermont County Communications Center, was not being used for primary emergency communications and was slated to be torn down by December, Dispatcher J.T. Riley said.

        A new tower has been handling primary emergency communications.

        The old tower was used to transmit loud alert tones and voice messages to emergency medical personnel's pagers, said Kathy Lehr, the county's director of communications.

        “But we have a backup system of pagers, and they worked beautifully,” Ms. Lehr said.

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