Thunderstorm Wind,
- When
- March 22, 4:09 AM CST
- Where
- County
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Coordinates
- 39.080, -84.500
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Ohio, March 22, 1955
6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 3
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Greene
- When
- March 22, 5:30 AM CST
- Where
- Greene County
- Measured
- 63 kt (72 mph)
- Coordinates
- 39.780, -84.080
Thunderstorm Wind, Hamilton
- When
- March 22, 5:50 AM CST
- Where
- Hamilton County
- Coordinates
- 39.200, -84.500
Thunderstorm Wind, Muskingum
- When
- March 22, 6:40 AM CST
- Where
- Muskingum County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -81.900
Thunderstorm Wind, Stark
- When
- March 22, 7:30 AM CST
- Where
- Stark County
- Measured
- 64 kt (74 mph)
- Coordinates
- 40.880, -81.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Cuyahoga
- When
- March 22, 7:30 AM CST
- Where
- Cuyahoga County
- Measured
- 74 kt (85 mph)
- Coordinates
- 41.380, -81.780
Tornado, Mahoning
- When
- March 22, 8:00 AM CST
- Where
- Mahoning County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5.1 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 40.950, -80.680
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
Every storm in Ohio in 1955Every state in 1955This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Ohio, 1955
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10083334, 10083335, 10083336, 10083337, 10083338, 10083339, 10083340.