EF2 tornado in Lucas County, Ohio

The tornado began 1000 feet east of Telegraph Road along East State Line Road in Toledo. Several tree limbs were downed on power lines with 80 mph winds. The tornado continued to track southeastward, snapping and downing several power poles along North Detroit Avenue with 90 mph winds. The tornado continued southeastward across Interstate 75 and reached its peak intensity as its wind speeds increased to 130 mph. The tornado partially destroyed the second floor of the medical lab building and blew out windows of a gas station and strip mall on Suder Avenue. The tornado continued southeastward across the more densely populated Point Place area, widened up to 300 yards, produced widespread tree damage, uprooted trees, and broke numerous tree limbs that fell onto houses, powerlines, and cars. The tornado continued southeastward across Cullen Park and ended at the Maumee Mooring Basin of the Maumee River.

A cold front moved into northwest Ohio the evening of Thursday, June 15. A weak surface low pressure developed along this front over southern Michigan earlier in the day and moved southeast across the western tip of Lake Erie during the evening. A warm front extended southeast of this low pressure along the western Lake Erie shoreline and then down towards central Ohio. Thunderstorms erupted along the cold front near Toledo just before 6:00 PM and moved southeast towards east-central Ohio over the coming hours. Enhanced vertical wind shear associated with the low pressure and warm front allowed storms to rotate amidst an unstable environment. A particularly intense supercell (rotating thunderstorm) developed near the Ohio/Michigan border just north of Toledo and tracked across parts of Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, Erie, Huron, Seneca, Richland, Ashland, and Wayne Counties. This supercell was responsible for nine tornadoes and numerous instances of large hail, with hail to at least the size of tennis balls reported near Toledo and multiple reports of hail to golf ball sized or larger as the storm continued southeast. Heavy rainfall from this supercell also produced flash flooding across Huron County. Storms gradually congealed into a line that produced some hail and straight-line convective wind damage into east central Ohio.