Tornado, Lorain
- When
- April 9, 12:45 PM EST to 12:47 PM EST
- Where
- Lorain County, Eaton Estates
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 41.320, -82.020
A weak tornado briefly touched down. No damage was reported.
Tornado in Ohio, April 9, 1998
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 17 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:42 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes in Georgia, April 9, 1998
- Tornadoes in Georgia, April 9, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Georgia, April 9 to 17, 1998
- Damaging Winds in New York, April 9, 1998
- Rip Current in Alabama, April 9, 1998
- Storm Surge in Ohio, April 9 to 10, 1998
- Flooding in Michigan, April 9 to 10, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, April 9, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in South Carolina, April 9, 1998
- Blizzard and High Wind in Alaska, April 9 to 10, 1998
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, April 9, 1998
- High Wind in Hawaii, April 9 to 11, 1998
More
Every storm in Ohio in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Ohio, 1998Warnings in Ohio, April 1998
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: 5641369.