Thunderstorm Wind — Mahoning, Ohio

2024-05-25 · near East Lewistown, Mahoning, Ohio

Event narrative

Power poles downed along OH-46 about one-mile NNW of Columbiana.

Wider weather episode

Far-northeast OH resided in the warm/moist sector of an occluded surface low centered near the border of southeastern MB and ON during the early afternoon through early evening of the 25th. Simultaneously, a cold front drifted eastward across far-eastern OH. Along and ahead of the cold front, a marginal supercell moved eastward across Mahoning County and generated isolated straight-line wind damage during the early afternoon of the 25th. Later that afternoon, a separate multicell thunderstorm moved east-southeastward across Mahoning County. This storm produced additional straight-line wind damage and marginally-severe hail. The warm/moist sector in which these storms occurred exhibited moderate MUCAPE and effective bulk shear, respectively, and primarily moderate DCAPE.

The aforementioned cold front settled eastward and southeastward to near the Upper OH Valley through daybreak on the 26th as the occluded surface low drifted northward. Thereafter, the front drifted generally northward as a warm front to the southern shore of Lake Erie through the early evening of the 26th as the occluded low meandered in vicinity of the border between northeastern MB and ON, and a separate low along the front moved from northwestern MO to southern WI. Scattered to numerous multicell rain showers and thunderstorms accompanied the warm front as it encountered weak to moderate MUCAPE, moderate to strong DCAPE, and moderate to strong effective bulk shear. Several of these showers and thunderstorms generated isolated straight-line wind damage.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (40.9072, -80.7045)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1190811. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.