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EF1 tornado in Ashland County, Ohio

Tornado June 13, 2022 · Ashland County, Ohio

EF1
Rating
5.7 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
$2K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Richland County → Ashland County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

As the tornado continued moving east-southeastward, it produced additional tree damage, especially in Mohican State Park, where the tornado dissipated before reaching OH-97. Estimated peak tornadic winds were 105 mph.

The wider storm

A surface front moved little during the evening of the 13th through predawn hours on the morning of the 14th. The front remained draped southeastward from far-southwest Lower MI and far-northeast IN, through northern OH, and into southwest PA. This front separated a very warm, humid, and unstable air mass to its southwest from a cooler, drier, and stable air mass to its northeast. Two mesoscale convective systems (i.e. MCS's) developed and evolved southeastward along this front.

During the late evening of the 13th through first hour of the 14th, the first bowing MCS evolved southeastward across portions of northern OH and generated widespread damaging to destructive wind gusts and three QLCS tornadoes. This MCS was a true derecho. The second bowing MCS evolved southeastward across portions of northern OH and generated sporadic damaging wind gusts during the wee hours on the morning of the 14th. Both MCS's occurred along a tight northeast-to-southwest gradient in MUCAPE accompanying the front and amidst primarily moderate to strong MUCAPE. The two MCS's also took advantage of moderate DCAPE and moderate to strong effective bulk shear.

Began near Perrysville (40.6061, -82.3376).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1027875. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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