Thunderstorm Wind — Medina, Ohio

2022-08-29 · near Poe, Medina, Ohio

Event narrative

Trees downed and window blown-in at house in Fox Meadows Country Club neighborhood just SSE of Medina. Likely downburst since 0.5 degree storm-relative radial velocity data from the KCLE radar indicated a divergent Doppler velocity couplet over the area at the time of the report.

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 1053228. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.