EF1 tornado, Eagle Mills to Hope, 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 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

June 8, 2022

Touchdown

7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)

Lifted

7:46 PM EDT (23:46 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.4 miles (0.7 km)

Path width

200 yards (183 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$2,000

County

Vinton County

Touchdown point

39.332, -82.353

Lift-off point

39.334, -82.346

Record number

2206081745-01

15 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS ILN and NWS RLX, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 110 mph.

• A hole in the forest was created at this location by small but powerful downburst.
• A few trees were uprooted along King Hollow Rd laying in a northerly direction. There's some separation from this damage and the tornadic looking tree damage further in the forest.
• Batch of healthy trees down near campsite showing signs of convergence/rotation.
• Additional trees uprooted or snapped in this logged out area but most trees looked weakened/diseased.

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

A cold front accompanying a low pressure system swept through southeast Ohio on the afternoon and evening of June 8th. Strong to severe thunderstorms preceded the frontal passage, which imposed wind damage, large hail, an instance of flash flooding, and three areas ravaged by a tornado. These were confirmed to have occurred in Vinton County with numerous uprooted trees within the damage path.

A tornado continued from Hocking County into Vinton County. The tornado uprooted and snapped numerous hardwood trees across northern Vinton County from Macedonia Road eastward to Goosecreek Road. The tornado lifted between Goosecreek Road and Locust Grove Road.

A swath of trees with signs of convergence/rotation occurred on the northwest side of the ridge between Lake Hope and the Lake Hope State Park Lodge and Cabins. Multiple large healthy trees, including Oak and Hickory, were snapped and uprooted. A tree on the outer edge of the damage path fell onto a cabin causing minor damage.

A group of trees were uprooted with some smaller trees snapped near a campsite and backpacking trail in the Zaleski State Forest. The trees showed signs of convergence. Due to dense forest and limitation of ground survey, it is unknown how far the damage path actually went into the forest. However, additional tree damage found in a logged area farther east on King Hollow Road was likely the eastward extent of the path.

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

20 minutes of warning. NWS RLX issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:25 UTC, 20 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 00:00 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 18:32 UTC and running to 01:33 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.

The Charleston,WV radar (KRLX), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:44 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.