EF0 Tornado — Medina, Ohio

2025-07-07 · near Thompsons, Medina, Ohio

Event narrative

An EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 81-mph impacted portions of Chatham and Lafayette Townships, and moved generally east-southeastward during its lifespan. The tornado began just north of Spencer Lake Road, about halfway between Ballou and Erhart Roads. Damage related to the tornado was primarily in the form of snapped tree branches or entire trees snapped. However, the tornado damaged an unoccupied small barn west of the intersection of Spencer Lake and Erhart Roads. Farther to the east-southeast and after crossing Carsten Road, the tornado caused minor damage to the roof of a house before the tornado dissipated soon thereafter.

Wider weather episode

At the surface, a cold front drifted southeastward across northern and central OH during the afternoon through early evening of July 7th as a weak low along the front drifted generally eastward in vicinity of northeastern Lake Ontario. Along and ahead of the front, thunderstorms in the form of scattered multicells and a few supercells developed and persisted generally eastward across NE OH, in the warm and humid sector. One of the supercells produced a weak tornado in Medina County, while the descending rear-inflow jet of a bow echo produced minor and isolated straight-line wind damage in Trumbull County. These storms occurred amidst moderate MUCAPE and effective bulk shear, respectively.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1295721. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.