EF0 tornado in Lorain County, Ohio
Tornado September 24, 2024 · Lorain County, Ohio
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
This very brief EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 75-mph began just west of Gore Orphanage Road in Kipton. As the tornado moved northeastward, it removed portions of metal siding and roofing at a farmstead. Among the metal debris, some was twisted, some was blown into a separate structure's west side at the farmstead, and some was scattered northeastward into a field east of Gore Orphanage Road. The tornado dissipated soon after crossing the aforementioned road.
The wider storm
At the surface, a low moved north-northeastward from northwestern IN to southwestern Lower MI during the early afternoon through late evening of the 24th. This allowed the trailing cold front to sweep eastward across IN toward the IN/OH border, while the warm front drifted northeastward across northern OH, much of southern Lower MI, western and central Lake Erie, and portions of northwest PA. Within the warm and moist sector, isolated to scattered multicell and occasional supercell thunderstorms moved generally northeastward or eastward across northwest and north-central OH during the late afternoon through early evening hours. These storms produced isolated straight-line wind damage, very isolated severe hail, and a brief tornado as the storms encountered moderate effective bulk shear and MUCAPE, respectively. The briefly tornadic supercell in Lorain County appears to have coincided with favorably-low mixed layer LCL's and an increase in surface-based ESRH tied to the development and strengthening of a southwesterly nocturnal low-level jet at and near 850 mb.
Began near Camden (41.2498, -82.3328).
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1247872. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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