EF0 tornado in Ottawa County, Ohio

An EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 70-mph impacted the Rocky Ridge area and moved east-northeastward during its lifespan. This tornado began west of Toussaint Portage Road and produced minor tree damage, including one tree downed onto a house. Another home on Toussaint Portage Road sustained minor roof and facade damage, and had a window shattered. As the tornado continued to move east-northeastward, it downed additional tree branches along Genzman Road and then removed a portion of a small barn's roof before the tornado dissipated.

A slow-moving cold front was draped west to east across the southern Great Lakes during the day of June 18th, 2025, with low pressure near Chicago drifting east toward southern Ontario. An upper-level shortwave trough moving eastward across the southern Great Lakes during the afternoon brought scattered showers and thunderstorms to portions of northern Ohio, with slow-moving and back-building storms along a lake breeze front in far-northeast Ohio, which brought flash flooding to portions of Ashtabula County. A quasi-linear convective system organized and strengthened across Illinois and Indiana during the afternoon and early evening hours, and moved eastward across northern Ohio during the evening. This line of storms generated widespread damaging straight-line wind gusts up to approximately 80 mph and three tornadoes in northern Ohio. All of these storms occurred amidst moderate to strong effective bulk shear and primarily weak to moderate MUCAPE.