EF0 Tornado — Stark, Ohio

2025-06-05 · near Justus, Stark, Ohio

Event narrative

About two-miles SSE of Brewster, an EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 80-mph formed in an open field east of Manchester Avenue SW and south of Lawndell Road SW, and moved generally eastward during its lifespan. The tornado struck a well-built barn. Between 50 and 100 slate tiles were removed from the barn's roof, blown southward, and embedded in the adjacent field. Large tree branches were broken just to the east of the barn. Several of the these tree branches were also twisted, indicative of tornado-related damage. As the tornado then moved across the open field, it generated faint suction marks in the crop rows. The tornado then moved into a wooded area, where it knocked down two large trees before dissipating.

Wider weather episode

At the surface, a cold front drifted southward across northern OH during the early afternoon through early evening of June 5th as one ridge moved little over and near the Mid-Atlantic states and Mid OH Valley, and another ridge built slowly from the Upper Great Lakes, behind the front. Along and ahead of the cold front, organized thunderstorms in the form of multicells and a few supercells moved generally eastward across northern OH during the late afternoon and early evening of the 5th. A weak mesocyclonic tornado occurred in southwestern Stark County and very isolated straight-line wind damage occurred in Stark and Holmes Counties. These storms occurred in an ambient environment that included weak to moderate MUCAPE and moderate effective bulk shear.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1285596. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.