Tornadoes · United States · Ohio · 2019

EF0 tornado, Montville Buds Arpt, Ohio, June 13, 2019

This EF0 tornado ran 0.4 miles across Geauga County on June 13, 2019, touching down at 4:06 PM EDT and reaching 75 yards wide. It killed nobody, and did $3,000 of property damage.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Enhanced Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

  1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. EF186 to 110 mph

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. EF2111 to 135 mph

    Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

  4. EF3136 to 165 mph

    Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

  5. EF4166 to 200 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. EF5over 200 mph

    Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

  7. Unrated

    The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating
EF0
Date
June 13, 2019
Touchdown
4:06 PM EDT (20:06 UTC)
Lifted
4:10 PM EDT (20:10 UTC)
On the ground
4 minutes
Path length
0.4 miles (0.7 km)
Path width
75 yards (69 m)
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$3,000
County
Geauga County
Touchdown point
41.564, -81.090
Lift-off point
41.566, -81.082
Record number
1906131406-01

The damage survey

5 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS CLE, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 84 mph.

  • start point of tornado, trees snapped at the top
  • approx. end point, debris path noted in field

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

What the Weather Service recorded

An isolated, brief EF-0 tornado touched down in rural Geauga County causing minor damage to structures and trees.

The tornado touched down just north of the intersection of Chardon-Windsor Road and Princeton Road in rural northern Geauga County. The tornado snapped tree limbs and did damage to a house as well as outbuildings as it moved east-northeast. The tornado continued on the ground for almost half a mile before lifting. The estimated maximum winds were up to 84 mph.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:53 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), 12:00Z

8.1 hours before the tornado, 153 km from the path. June 13, 2019.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2019-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 7 joules per kilogram, CIN -53, lifted condensation level 745 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2019-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 96 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 57 knots.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
7 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-53 J/kg
Surface CAPE
30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0
0-3 km lapse rate
5.4 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), 00:00Z

3.9 hours after it, 153 km from the path. June 14, 2019.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2019-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 24 joules per kilogram, CIN -19, lifted condensation level 983 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 00:00Z on 2019-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 26 knots.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
24 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-19 J/kg
Surface CAPE
217 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
983 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0
0-3 km lapse rate
6.5 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The surface observations

Willoughby (LNN), 29 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)Temp (°F)Dew point (°F)WindGust (kt)Pressure (mb)Weather
18:15 UTC6253300° 4 kt1003.7
18:35 UTC6353.410° 3 kt1003.7
18:55 UTC63.352280° 3 kt1003.7
19:15 UTC6253310° 6 kt1003.7
19:35 UTC5853290° 6 kt1004.4
19:55 UTC57.453.2250° 5 kt1004.4
20:15 UTC58540° 0 kt1004.4
20:35 UTC58.354.50° 0 kt1004.4
20:55 UTC60.455240° 8 kt1004.7
21:15 UTC60.351.4240° 13 kt181004.7
21:35 UTC60.350.2230° 10 kt171005.1
21:55 UTC58.848.7240° 12 kt181005.4

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 67 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:05 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)ReportWhereCountyRemark
19:04 UTCTSTM WND DMG4 Ene AquillaGeauga, OHBARN BLOWN OVER AND DAMAGE TO THE ROOF OF A HOME ON CHARDON-WINDSOR ROAD. POSSIBLE TORNADO DAMAGE.
19:06 UTCTORNADO4 Ene AquillaGeauga, OHNWS SURVEY CONFIRMED EF-0 TORNADO, MAXIMUM ESTIMATED WIND SPEED OF 84 MPH. THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST NORTH OF THE INTERSECTION OF CHARDON-WINDSOR ROAD AND PRINCETON ROAD IN NORTHERN GEAUGA COUNTY. THE TORNADO SNAPPED

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

This ground now

The live radar over the trackEvery 2019 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

The other tornadoes of June 13, 2019

3 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 1311:02 PM EDTEF1Cecil, MD4.6580
June 1312:15 AM EDTEF0Gloucester, NJ0.350
June 1312:30 AM EDTEF1Gloucester, NJ2.1200

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.