"touched ground" is correct and usable in written English.
It is mainly used when referring to something that has landed or descended from a height. For example, "The plane touched ground at 8pm."
When the wheels touched ground and I turned on my cell phone, it was already ringing.
It was 50 feet across and touched ground for only 600 feet, Mr. Dickman said.
In Texas, there was almost no controversy when the law passed in 2001 with nearly unanimous support from lawmakers of both parties, and it hasn't been much of an issue since — or wasn't, until that twister touched ground.
Just before 1 o'clock on the afternoon of March 18 , 1925 over the farmland of southeastern Missouri, a column of air, spinning like a skater with her arms folded, came down from the clouds and touched ground.
And the tornadoes were indeed huge: the one that cut through downtown Tuscaloosa was about a mile wide and may have touched ground for up to 176 miles with winds up to 200 miles per hour.
The first enslaved Africans to reach these shores touched ground in 1619 at Old Point Comfort, Va., but the site is now an Army base, with no commemoration at all of what some call the black Mayflower.
