EF1 Tornado — Wayne, Ohio

2022-07-20 · near Shreve, Wayne, Ohio

Event narrative

The tornado began just north of Centerville Road, about one-mile SSW of Shreve, and destroyed a barn. As the tornado moved east-southeastward in vicinity of Centerville Road, it destroyed another barn and damaged the roofs of two additional barns and a storage shelter. Several trees were snapped and uprooted in vicinity of Schaaf and Centerville Roads before the tornado moved into Holmes County. Estimated peak tornadic winds were 105 mph.

Wider weather episode

A surface cold front moved southeastward from southeastern Lower Michigan and far-northwest Ohio to central Lake Erie and north-central and southwestern portions of Ohio during the evening of the 20th. Bands of organized thunderstorms, mainly in the form of multicells, occurred along and especially ahead of the front. These storms encountered a warm sector comprised of moderate to strong effective bulk shear and MUCAPE, respectively, and strong DCAPE. This environment allowed sporadic convective straight-line wind damage to occur. A supercell embedded within the pre-frontal squall line generated a brief tornado in far-southern Wayne and far-northern Holmes Counties as the supercell encountered favorably-low mixed layer LCL's and large surface-based effective SRH.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1032812. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.