Thunderstorm Wind — Ottawa, Ohio

2022-08-29 · near Oak Harbor, Ottawa, Ohio

Event narrative

Multiple trees and power poles downed, and a shed was damaged in Oak Harbor.

Wider weather episode

Northern Ohio resided in the warm sector during the late morning through early evening of the 29th as a surface cold front approached slowly from the Upper Midwest and western Great Lakes. Simultaneously, the parent surface low drifted eastward from northeastern Manitoba into far-northern Ontario. The warm sector consisted of moderate to strong MUCAPE, moderate effective bulk shear, and primarily moderate to strong DCAPE in northern Ohio. As a squall line evolved generally eastward across northeast Ohio, it generated very isolated straight-line wind damage in Mahoning County during the early afternoon of the 29th. Later that day, a separate and outflow-dominant squall line generated scattered straight-line wind damage in northern Ohio as the squall line evolved generally eastward. A thunderstorm ahead of this squall line managed to produce a downburst in Medina County.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1053200. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.