EF1 Tornado — Holmes, Ohio

2022-07-20 · near Hard, Holmes, Ohio

Event narrative

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.

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 1032821. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.