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EF1 tornado in Holmes County, Ohio

Tornado July 20, 2022 · Holmes County, Ohio

EF1

Rating

2.2 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$117K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Wayne County → Holmes 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

After the tornado entered Holmes County, it continued moving east-southeastward and dissipated soon thereafter in a farm field just south of Centerville Road, about two-miles ESE of Shreve. Estimated peak tornadic winds were 105 mph.

The wider storm

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.

Began near Hard (40.6673, -81.9929).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1032821. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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