EF2 tornado, West Milton to Alcony, Ohio, June 8, 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 mph

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

3. EF2111 to 135 mphthis tornado

   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

EF2

Date

June 8, 2022

Touchdown

5:53 PM EDT (21:53 UTC)

Lifted

6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)

On the ground

23 minutes

Path length

13.8 miles (22.1 km)

Path width

150 yards (137 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$1.0 million

County

Miami County

Touchdown point

39.969, -84.362

Lift-off point

39.992, -84.104

Record number

2206081553-01

25 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ILN, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF2. The highest wind the damage implies is 120 mph.

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

Thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours ahead of a low pressure system moving through the region. Many of the storms became severe, leading to damaging wind and a few tornadoes.

The tornado touched down west of West Milton in open farmland and was only loosely in contact with the ground as it traveled east through West Milton. Only minor tree damage was seen for the first few miles of the track, with the vast majority of the tree damage being broken limbs and a few uprooted trees.||As the tornado moved through the Nashville area and toward Tipp City, it began to strengthen and caused EF-1 category wind damage to trees, power poles, and residences along West Kessler Cowlesville Road, especially near its intersection with Peters Road.||As the tornado approached Interstate 75, it strengthened further and directly hit several large industrial warehouse buildings on both the east side and west sides of the Interstate. On the west side of the Interstate, a large warehouse suffered considerable roof damage and a complete collapse of an exterior wall. Several empty semi trailers were overturned or rolled. In this area, damage was consistent with wind speeds of around 120 mph, or EF-2 damage. ||The tornado continued across the Great Miami River into rural farmland where the intensity quickly decreased and damage to trees and outbuildings was consistent with EF-0 or low-end EF-1 damage. The tornado then lifted south-southeast of Casstown.

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

6 minutes of warning. NWS ILN issued a tornado warning for this county at 21:47 UTC, 6 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 22:15 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 18:31 UTC and running to 00:52 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 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 20:00 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.

Dayton (DAY), 8 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 21:50 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

14 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.