EF1 tornado, Mahoning to Masury, Ohio, June 16, 2019

1. EF065 to 85 mph

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

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   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.

Rating

EF1

Date

June 16, 2019

Touchdown

4:11 PM EDT (20:11 UTC)

Lifted

4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)

On the ground

14 minutes

Path length

13.5 miles (21.7 km)

Path width

250 yards (229 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$275,000

Counties

Portage and Trumbull counties

Touchdown point

41.281, -81.024

Lift-off point

41.250, -80.772

Record number

1906161411-01

13 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS CLE, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 100 mph.

• tree uprooted and fell onto house

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

A stationary front was extended west to east across central Ohio as a weak upper level shortwave tracked east along Lake Erie. A storm initiated off the tail end of this shortwave and began to intensify just east of Cleveland as it interacted with a northward moving boundary from the stationary front. There was enough instability with MLCAPE greater than 750 J/kg and the interaction of this boundary allowed for the local shear to increase, leading to rotation towards the southern edge of the storm. Several tornadoes developed across northeast Ohio.

An EF-1 tornado touched down in far northeast Portage County|southwest of Southington. The tornado briefly tracked northeast|before turning to the east-southeast into Trumbull County. The tornado destroyed|several outbuildings and produced extensive tree damage,|especially about a mile south of Southington. The tornado had an|intermittent path across northern Warren before lifting near the|Trumbull Country Club.

An EF-1 tornado touched down in far northeast Portage County|southwest of Southington. The tornado briefly tracked northeast|before turning to the east-southeast into Trumbull County. The tornado destroyed|several outbuildings and produced extensive tree damage,|especially about a mile south of Southington. The tornado had an|intermittent path across northern Warren before lifting near the|Trumbull Country Club.

NWS storm survey found damage indicative of an EF-1 tornado with|maximum winds of 95 mph and width of 250 yards. The tornado|touched down east of Vienna and just north of State Route 82, tracked|east across Brookfield, and lifted near West Hill. The tornado|produced extensive tree damage across its path.

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

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

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 Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:50 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 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.

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 82 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:10 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.

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

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

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

12 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

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