EF1 Tornado — Hancock, Ohio

2024-03-14 · near Mt Cory, Hancock, Ohio

Event narrative

An EF1 tornado with estimated peak winds of 105 mph tracked east-northeastward for about three-miles in Orange Township. The tornado began near the intersection of Township Roads 29 and 56 and ended near Township Road 60, just south of Township Road 32. The tornado damaged several homes and outbuildings during its lifespan.

Wider weather episode

A cold front drifted south-southeastward from near the northern shore of Lake Erie and southern Lower MI to near the southern shore of Lake Erie and far-northwestern OH during the evening of the 14th as a warm and relatively-moist sector preceded the front in northern OH. Multicell and supercell thunderstorms occurred along and ahead of the front, and persisted generally eastward. Severe hail, some large, and isolated straight-line convective wind damage occurred as the storms encountered weak to moderate MUCAPE, relatively-steep midlevel lapse rates near 7C/km, and moderate to strong effective bulk shear. Three separate supercells spawned a tornado amidst favorably-strong, surface-based effective storm relative helicity and favorably-low mixed layer lifting condensation levels less than 1500 meters AGL. The training supercell thunderstorms with heavy rainfall produced isolated flash flooding as well.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1166699. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.