EF2 tornado, Dallas to Beham, West Virginia, August 1, 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

August 1, 2022

Touchdown

6:05 PM CDT (23:05 UTC)

Lifted

6:09 PM CDT (23:09 UTC)

On the ground

4 minutes

Path length

1.8 miles (2.9 km)

Path width

350 yards (320 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$650,000

Crop damage

$5,000

Counties

Marshall and Washington counties

Touchdown point

40.027, -80.537

Lift-off point

40.012, -80.510

Record number

2208011705-01

31 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS PBZ, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF2. The highest wind the damage implies is 112 mph.

• Collapsed shed and some uprooted trees farther down in path. End point for dalla tor?

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

Remnants of a mesoscale convective system created a few supercells in eastern Ohio that advanced into northern West Virginia/western Pennsylvania. Two tornadoes spun up from a single supercell. Despite meager instability, deep-layer wind shear was favorable at near 40 knots, and the storm tracked in a favorable direction to ingest rotating updrafts.

Remnants of a mesoscale convective system created a few supercells in eastern Ohio that advanced into northern West Virginia/western Pennsylvania. Two tornadoes spun up from a single supercell. Despite meager instability, deep-layer wind shear was favorable at near 40 knots, and the storm tracked in a favorable direction to ingest rotating updrafts.

A storm survey conducted by NWS Pittsburgh confirmed than an EF2 tornado touched down in Marshall County WV, continued into portions of Ohio County WV, and ended in Washington County PA. ||An EF2 tornado was determined based on the visible tree damage. The tornado touched down just west of the end of Sparrow Lane off of Dallas Pike Road where a barn was completely destroyed. In addition, a camper was overturned and destroyed on the property. ||The tornado continued east knocking down numerous trees along Dallas Pike Road both hardwood and softwood. Most of the trees that sustained damaged were snapped at the trunk. The storm did tear off the roof of a 160 year old barn off of Rock Valley Farm Road. There was a church parsonage that sustain major roof damage off of Dallas Pike Road. The tornado then briefly continued into Pennsylvania.

A storm survey conducted by NWS Pittsburgh confirmed than an EF2 tornado touched down in Marshall County WV, continued into portions of Ohio County WV, and ended in Washington County PA. ||After the tornado crossed into Pennsylvania, damage mainly consisted of downed and snapped trees before the funnel lifted just east of Fraction Road, where a small outbuilding was damaged.

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

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

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 Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:57 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.

Wheeling/Ohio Co. (HLG), 20 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 63 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 23:07 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 West VirginiaEvery tornado in West Virginia since 1950Warnings in force in West Virginia nowThe forecast where you are

5 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.