EF0 Tornado — Holmes, Ohio

2023-08-12 · near Nashville, Holmes, Ohio

Event narrative

An EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 70 mph occurred on the southeastern outskirts of Nashville. This tornado began along Township Road 501, just south of OH-39 and ended just northeast of the intersection of Township Roads 51 and 259. As the tornado tracked southeastward, it uprooted or snapped trees and other trees had their tops sheared-off. No structural damage was observed.

Wider weather episode

An occluded surface low meandered near the eastern shore of Lake Superior during the late morning through early evening of the 12th. Simultaneously, the trailing cold front swept southeastward from southeastern Lower MI and northern IN to central Lake Erie and north-central/west-central portions of OH. Multiple multicell and supercell thunderstorms occurred along and ahead of the cold front in northern OH. These storms produced severe hail, damaging convective gusts, and two tornadoes in a warm sector comprised of moderate to strong MUCAPE and effective bulk shear, respectively, mixed-layer lifting condensation levels near 750 to 1500 meters AGL, and strong surface-based effective storm-relative helicity near 150 meters squared per second squared.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1146440. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.