EF0 tornado in Wayne County, Ohio

A very brief EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 85-mph impacted the Apple Creek area. The tornado began just west of Honeytown Road, impacted three residential properties as it moved eastward, and then ended just east of the road. The tornado uprooted and snapped trees, and caused some large tree branches to be impaled into the ground. A carport awning was lofted across a home and knocked over a TV antenna, which caused the chimney to collapse onto the roof. Additional impacts included a blown-down fence, roof damage, and damage to an external propane tank at other residences.

At the surface, a cold front drifted southeastward across Lake Ontario, southern ON, and southern Lower MI toward Lake Erie during the early afternoon through late evening of the 31st. Ahead of the front, several lines of multicell thunderstorms and a discrete supercell persisted generally eastward across northern OH during the late afternoon through the late evening of the 31st. Some of these storms produced sporadic straight-line convective wind damage, two mesovortex-related tornadoes, and small hail. The ambient environment of these storms included weak to moderate MUCAPE and moderate to strong effective bulk shear. It appears the development of a southwesterly to west-southwesterly low-level jet and resulting enhanced surface-based ESRH coinciding with favorably-low mixed layer LCL's contributed to the development of the two tornadoes.