EF1 tornado, Eagle Cliff to Oakwood, Ohio, August 6, 2024

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

August 6, 2024

Touchdown

3:54 PM EDT (19:54 UTC)

Lifted

3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)

On the ground

2 minutes

Path length

1.8 miles (2.8 km)

Path width

250 yards (229 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$50,000

County

Cuyahoga County

Touchdown point

41.491, -81.941

Lift-off point

41.471, -81.921

Record number

2408061354-01

37 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 110 mph.

• Several healthy oak trees snapped. Tree destroyed a deck and appeared to have shifted away from the point of impact. Large section of tree fell on fence. Patio furniture also crushed and displaced.
• Branches displaced into front yard
• Healthy oak snapped fell across two houses. Window blown in. Brick scoring on east face of house
• Top of tree snapped off with limbs scattered and layered in different directions. Oak tree with rotted core broke off and collapsed towards the southeast, damaging a front porch.

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

Between about daybreak and nightfall on August 6th, a wavy surface cold front drifted generally southward from northern OH and near the NY/PA line to southern OH and the northern Mid-Atlantic states. This front separated a warm and humid air mass to its north from a warmer and more-humid air mass to its south. A line of multicell thunderstorms persisted southeastward across Mahoning County during the early afternoon and produced localized straight-line convective wind damage. During the late afternoon through early evening, a line of multicell thunderstorms moving eastward across northwest OH merged with a separate line of multicell thunderstorms moving southeastward across western and central Lake Erie. These lines merged to form a more-extensive QLCS that persisted southward and eastward across northern OH. Ahead of these storms, additional multicells and a few transient supercells developed in northeast OH. ||All of these storms occurred amidst weak to moderate MUCAPE and moderate to strong effective bulk shear. Extensive straight-line convective wind damage occurred in northern OH, especially northeast OH, as storms also encountered moderate DCAPE and steep low-level lapse rates. The QLCS also produced five mesovortex-related tornadoes amidst large surface-based ESRH of at least 150 meters squared per second squared and favorable mixed-layer LCL's less than 1k meters AGL.

This tornado had peak intensity of EF1, estimated peak winds of 110 mph, and entered Cuyahoga County from Lorain County, just west of Wolf Road in Bay Village. The tornado moved generally east-southeastward along its path in Cuyahoga County. As the tornado moved in vicinity of Wolf Road, it caused minor tree damage near Bradley Road Park. Sporadic tree damage continued along the tornado's path. Large tree limbs and tree tops were snapped along East Oakland Road in Bay Village, where a front porch was damaged by one of the snapped trees. Along Laurel Avenue in Rocky River, a healthy oak tree fell across two homes and caused roof damage to both homes. One of these homes had its north-facing exterior displaced and portions of its east-facing brick exterior were scoured by airborne debris. Several more oak trees were snapped near the intersection of Laurel Avenue and U.S. Route 20 in Rocky River. One of the snapped trees destroyed a deck. The tornado dissipated very soon thereafter.

This tornado had peak intensity of EF1, estimated peak winds of 110 mph, and moved southeastward during its lifespan. The tornado began in Bay Village near Lake Road, west of Pinewood Drive, and caused tree damage along Northfield Road and Longbeach Parkway. Widespread tree damage occurred in Huntington Reservation. Numerous trees were twisted, snapped, and uprooted nearby on Wolf Road and West Oakland Road, where the tornado crossed the path of the separate tornado that began in Lorain County and moved into Bay Village minutes before. Multiple structures along West Oakland Road were damaged due to downed trees and this is where the tornado reached its peak intensity. The damage included a destroyed roof, a separate damaged roof, and multiple sheds were damaged or destroyed. The tornado entered Westlake near Cahoon Road and crossed Cahoon Creek. Intermittent tree damage continued along Georgetown Drive, Ellington Road, and Langale Road before the tornado dissipated near the intersection of Dover Center Road and Sentry Lane.

This tornado had peak intensity of EF1, estimated peak winds of 104 mph, and travelled generally east-southeastward through southern portions of suburban Cleveland. The tornado began near Sylvia Drive in Brook Park, where scattered tree limbs were downed. Metal roofing was torn off a portion of the Brook Park Recreation Center. Extensive damage to trees was noted along the majority of the path with downed limbs, some twisted, and other trees snapped off at the trunk. Numerous trees landed on homes, cars, and downed power lines. A garage with metal siding collapsed near Carol Drive and Middlebrook Boulevard in Brook Park, where damage was also sustained to a neighbor's garage and most of the covered patio was destroyed. Numerous power poles were leaning or downed along West 130th Street. Tornado-related damage continued through Parma Heights and Parma where numerous power poles were leaning or downed in yards and onto homes along West Ridgewood Drive across from the Shoppes at Parma. The path of tree damage continued through Seven Hills, especially along Chestnut Road, with intermittent damage noted through Independence and east of the Cuyahoga River. Extensive tree damage was noted in Valley View along Stone Road, where several large trees were uprooted and some fell onto homes. Strips of siding were torn off many homes in this area and lofted. Some trees fell to the north and northwest along this portion of the tornado's path. The tornado continued into Bedford where another neighborhood experienced significant damage south of Turney Road. Trees were downed onto several homes and at least a portion of a roof was ripped off with damage to a chimney. A new shed that was secured strongly was destroyed. Splattering of debris was noted on homes. Several homes had areas with siding removed and thrown. The tornado continued through Bedford Reservation with damage noted on Union Street and into the Bedford Cemetery. Damage became intermittent before the tornado ended just east of I-480 and south of Solon Road.

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

11 minutes of warning. NWS CLE issued a tornado warning for this county at 19:43 UTC, 11 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 20:30 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 15:47 UTC and running to 21:41 UTC.

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 Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 16:27 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.

Cleveland (CLE), 11 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 10 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 19:56 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 2024 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

8 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.