Waterspout, Ashtabula
- When
- July 26, 3:30 PM EST
- Where
- Ashtabula County, Lake Erie
- Coordinates
- 41.896, -80.759 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Waterspout in Ohio, July 26, 1996
A waterspout was reported offshore within an area of showers and thunderstorms just north of Conneaut. It did not come ashore and there was no known damage.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS CLE wrote it up.
A waterspout was reported offshore within an area of showers and thunderstorms just north of Conneaut. It did not come ashore and there was no known damage.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 waterspout. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Waterspout
- A tornado over water. One that moves ashore is filed as a tornado from the coastline on.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Florida, July 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, July 26, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 26, 1996
- Hail in Utah, July 26, 1996
- Tornado in South Carolina, July 26, 1996
- Hail in Texas, July 26, 1996
- Hail in Nebraska, July 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, July 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 26, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 26, 1996
- Hail in Kansas, July 26, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, July 26, 1996
More
Every storm in Ohio in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, July 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5558163.