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EF0 tornado in Huron County, Ohio

Tornado June 29, 2024 · Huron County, Ohio

EF0
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado began just northwest of the intersection of Lisa Lane and Egypt Road on the north side of Willard, tracked east-northeastward across Lisa Lane, and dissipated in the forest just east of Lisa Lane and north of Egypt Road. During its very brief lifespan, the tornado snapped several tree limbs; one of which was impaled into the ground. This EF0 tornado had estimated peak winds of 80-mph.

The wider storm

At the surface, a wavy warm front swept eastward from Lake Michigan, southern Lower MI, and western OH to southern Lake Huron, southwestern ON, eastern Lake Erie, and northwestern PA as an occluded low drifted from central Lake Superior to central ON during the mid-morning through early afternoon hours of the 29th. Multiple lines of multicell showers and thunderstorms developed and persisted generally eastward along and ahead of the surface warm front amidst weak to moderate MUCAPE and DCAPE, respectively, and moderate to strong effective bulk shear. A very brief mesovortex-related tornado occurred in Huron County, amidst surface-based effective storm-relative helicity near 150 to nearly 200 meters squared per second squared and mixed layer LCL's between 750 meters and 1000 meters AGL. Isolated straight-line convective wind damage impacted Lorain and Cuyahoga Counties.

Began near Centerton (41.0802, -82.7336).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1203189. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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