Waterspout — Conneaut Oh To Ripley Ny, Lake Erie

2024-09-07 · near Conneaut, Conneaut Oh To Ripley Ny, Lake Erie

Event narrative

Social media photos of three waterspouts offshore Lake City, PA. Location estimated via radar.

Wider weather episode

At the surface, a trough lingered over Lake Erie, northern OH, and northwest PA during the morning of the 7th as a low moved north-northeastward, along a surface front, from northeastern Lake Ontario to southwestern QC. Behind the low, a northwesterly mean low-level flow of sufficiently-cold and moist air across relatively-warm Lake Erie yielded appreciable lake-induced instability and allowed several bands of lake-effect rain showers to stream southeastward over and downwind of the lake. Non-mesocyclonic waterspouts accompanied some of these showers offshore Conneaut, OH and Lake City, PA.

View location on OpenStreetMap → (42.1047, -80.3352)

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1247815. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.