EF1 tornado in Cuyahoga County, Ohio

This tornado had peak intensity of EF1, estimated peak winds of 110 mph, and moved southeastward during its lifespan. The tornado began in Bay Village near Lake Road, west of Pinewood Drive, and caused tree damage along Northfield Road and Longbeach Parkway. Widespread tree damage occurred in Huntington Reservation. Numerous trees were twisted, snapped, and uprooted nearby on Wolf Road and West Oakland Road, where the tornado crossed the path of the separate tornado that began in Lorain County and moved into Bay Village minutes before. Multiple structures along West Oakland Road were damaged due to downed trees and this is where the tornado reached its peak intensity. The damage included a destroyed roof, a separate damaged roof, and multiple sheds were damaged or destroyed. The tornado entered Westlake near Cahoon Road and crossed Cahoon Creek. Intermittent tree damage continued along Georgetown Drive, Ellington Road, and Langale Road before the tornado dissipated near the intersection of Dover Center Road and Sentry Lane.

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.