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EF0 tornado in Huron County, Ohio

Tornado March 23, 2022 · Huron County, Ohio

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

An EF0 tornado occurred in Richmond Township. The tornado began south of Coder Road. As the tornado moved northeastward, it damaged a metal barn, pushed a 5th wheel trailer, and caved-in garage doors at a farmstead along Coder Road. The tornado advanced farther northeastward, crossed Bigham Road, and dissipated soon thereafter. Debris were deposited along Bigham Road.

The wider storm

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.

Began near Celeryville (41.0090, -82.8065).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1007618. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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