Waterspout — Vermilion To Avon Point Oh, Lake Erie

2020-08-05 · near Avon Point, Vermilion To Avon Point Oh, Lake Erie

Event narrative

Facebook picture of waterspout several miles offshore Lorain (i.e. about six miles northwest of Sheffield Lake).

Wider weather episode

As a surface low moved northeastward from Lake Ontario to far-southern Quebec during the evening of August 4th, a trailing cold front moved southeastward to the southern shore of Lake Erie by dusk before dissipating soon thereafter. Isolated showers and thunderstorms developed along this front. Several funnel clouds and one confirmed waterspout accompanied the showers and thunderstorms. Behind the front, a high pressure ridge built over the eastern Great Lakes during the late evening of the 4th through 5th. This ridge then persisted over the Great Lakes through the 6th and 7th. Multiple waterspouts developed along land breeze convergence zones during the morning of the 5th and 7th, respectively.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 916084. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.