Thunderstorm Wind in Crawford County, Ohio

Rotted tree snapped near its base and nearby shed roof was ripped off in Bucyrus.

The warm sector shrunk across northwestern and north-central OH during the early evening of the 23rd as an occluded low drifted northeastward across the Chicago area. Simultaneously, the trailing cold front swept eastward across the western-half of OH and overtook more of a slow-moving warm front draped southeastward across western Lake Erie and northeast OH. A broken band of multicellular showers and thunderstorms in vicinity of the cold front propagated eastward while individual cells raced northeastward in an environment exhibiting strong effective bulk shear, and weak MUCAPE and DCAPE, respectively. Abundant low-level moisture contributed to low mixed-layer LCL heights, while significant veering and strengthening of low-level flow with height yielded large surface-based ESRH. As a result, a QLCS tornado and a couple damaging wind gusts occurred.