A number of towns about 30 miles to the south of mine got hit last evening by a tornado. A couple coworkers live in or were traveling in the affected areas - boss's daughter barely managed to escape the storm as it crossed SR57.

Our 6M Skywarn backbone frequency was pretty active with a blow-by-blow account of the cell in question as it tracked from Ashland towards Wooster, Apple Creek, Millersburg and New Philadelphia. All of these towns sustained damage.

I was thinking about chasing the event yesterday afternoon but didn't really care for the setup - too much low-level slop in the vicinity, and I figured that visibility wouldn't be that spectacular. Our supercells tend to be rain-wrapped (HP types) and atmospheric conditions around 4PM certainly indicated that's what would be on tap. Given the fact that shear profiles weren't very noteworthy and the synopsis favored line-type rather than discrete cells, I sat this one out.

Evidently it was MUCH clearer few miles to my south...with decent helicity values and an accompanying break in the squall line which allowed that one cell to get enough inflow to spin up.