EF1 tornado, Shreve to Hard, Ohio, July 20, 2022

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

EF1

Date

July 20, 2022

Touchdown

8:55 PM EDT (00:55 UTC)

Lifted

8:59 PM EDT (00:59 UTC)

On the ground

4 minutes

Path length

2.2 miles (3.6 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$117,000

Counties

Holmes and Wayne counties

Touchdown point

40.670, -82.029

Lift-off point

40.667, -81.987

Record number

2207201855-01

8 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS CLE, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 105 mph.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

A surface cold front moved southeastward from southeastern Lower Michigan and far-northwest Ohio to central Lake Erie and north-central and southwestern portions of Ohio during the evening of the 20th. Bands of organized thunderstorms, mainly in the form of multicells, occurred along and especially ahead of the front. These storms encountered a warm sector comprised of moderate to strong effective bulk shear and MUCAPE, respectively, and strong DCAPE. This environment allowed sporadic convective straight-line wind damage to occur. A supercell embedded within the pre-frontal squall line generated a brief tornado in far-southern Wayne and far-northern Holmes Counties as the supercell encountered favorably-low mixed layer LCL's and large surface-based effective SRH.

The tornado began just north of Centerville Road, about one-mile SSW of Shreve, and destroyed a barn. As the tornado moved east-southeastward in vicinity of Centerville Road, it destroyed another barn and damaged the roofs of two additional barns and a storage shelter. Several trees were snapped and uprooted in vicinity of Schaaf and Centerville Roads before the tornado moved into Holmes County. Estimated peak tornadic winds were 105 mph.

After the tornado entered Holmes County, it continued moving east-southeastward and dissipated soon thereafter in a farm field just south of Centerville Road, about two-miles ESE of Shreve. Estimated peak tornadic winds were 105 mph.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

1 minute of warning. NWS CLE issued a tornado warning for this county at 00:54 UTC, 1 minute before the tornado touched down, in force until 01:30 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 22:18 UTC and running to 02:36 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 19:59 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Millersburg (10G), 15 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:57 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2022 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.