EF1 tornado in Cuyahoga County, Ohio

This tornado had peak intensity of EF1, estimated peak winds of 110 mph, and entered Cuyahoga County from Lorain County, just west of Wolf Road in Bay Village. The tornado moved generally east-southeastward along its path in Cuyahoga County. As the tornado moved in vicinity of Wolf Road, it caused minor tree damage near Bradley Road Park. Sporadic tree damage continued along the tornado's path. Large tree limbs and tree tops were snapped along East Oakland Road in Bay Village, where a front porch was damaged by one of the snapped trees. Along Laurel Avenue in Rocky River, a healthy oak tree fell across two homes and caused roof damage to both homes. One of these homes had its north-facing exterior displaced and portions of its east-facing brick exterior were scoured by airborne debris. Several more oak trees were snapped near the intersection of Laurel Avenue and U.S. Route 20 in Rocky River. One of the snapped trees destroyed a deck. The tornado dissipated very soon thereafter.

Between about daybreak and nightfall on August 6th, a wavy surface cold front drifted generally southward from northern OH and near the NY/PA line to southern OH and the northern Mid-Atlantic states. This front separated a warm and humid air mass to its north from a warmer and more-humid air mass to its south. A line of multicell thunderstorms persisted southeastward across Mahoning County during the early afternoon and produced localized straight-line convective wind damage. During the late afternoon through early evening, a line of multicell thunderstorms moving eastward across northwest OH merged with a separate line of multicell thunderstorms moving southeastward across western and central Lake Erie. These lines merged to form a more-extensive QLCS that persisted southward and eastward across northern OH. Ahead of these storms, additional multicells and a few transient supercells developed in northeast OH.

All of these storms occurred amidst weak to moderate MUCAPE and moderate to strong effective bulk shear. Extensive straight-line convective wind damage occurred in northern OH, especially northeast OH, as storms also encountered moderate DCAPE and steep low-level lapse rates. The QLCS also produced five mesovortex-related tornadoes amidst large surface-based ESRH of at least 150 meters squared per second squared and favorable mixed-layer LCL's less than 1k meters AGL.