EF1 tornado in Cuyahoga County, Ohio

An EF1 tornado touched just northwest of the Ursuline College campus around 3:35 am. The tornado continued south southeast across a part of the campus, crossed Fairmount Boulevard and finally lifted as it moved across a country club. Substantial damage was done to a gymnasium on the campus. The tornado caused a wall to collapse and tore off a part of the roof. Other buildings nearby sustained lesser amounts of roof damage. Many trees were also toppled or snapped along the damage path which was up to 200 yards in width and around a mile and a third in length. There was also evidence of straight line wind damage in the area.

Showers and thunderstorms developed along a stalled frontal boundary draped across Lake Erie and the upper Ohio Valley. Locally heavy rainfall was reported across northern Ohio with reports of up 6 inches in Lake County. A tornado touched down in eastern Cuyahoga County and caused some damage at a small college.