Waterspout · Lake Erie

A waterspout formed 0.8 miles north of South Shore Park in Oregon, OH. The waterspout moved east-southeastward just north of Maumee Bay Lodge and Conference Center and made landfall as a tornado in the eastern portion of Maumee Bay State Park.

A cold front moved into northwest Ohio the evening of Thursday, June 15th. 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 dominant supercell (rotating thunderstorm) produced several gale-force to storm-force peak convective gusts along the lakeshore in northwestern Ohio and a waterspout over Maumee Bay. The waterspout then moved onshore in Maumee Bay State Park before dissipating.