EF0 tornado, Camden to Kipton, Ohio, September 24, 2024

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.

Rating

EF0

Date

September 24, 2024

Touchdown

8:04 PM EDT (00:04 UTC)

Lifted

8:05 PM EDT (00:05 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.2 miles (0.4 km)

Path width

25 yards (23 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$25,000

County

Lorain County

Touchdown point

41.250, -82.333

Lift-off point

41.252, -82.329

Record number

2409241804-01

At the surface, a low moved north-northeastward from northwestern IN to southwestern Lower MI during the early afternoon through late evening of the 24th. This allowed the trailing cold front to sweep eastward across IN toward the IN/OH border, while the warm front drifted northeastward across northern OH, much of southern Lower MI, western and central Lake Erie, and portions of northwest PA. Within the warm and moist sector, isolated to scattered multicell and occasional supercell thunderstorms moved generally northeastward or eastward across northwest and north-central OH during the late afternoon through early evening hours. These storms produced isolated straight-line wind damage, very isolated severe hail, and a brief tornado as the storms encountered moderate effective bulk shear and MUCAPE, respectively. The briefly tornadic supercell in Lorain County appears to have coincided with favorably-low mixed layer LCL's and an increase in surface-based ESRH tied to the development and strengthening of a southwesterly nocturnal low-level jet at and near 850 mb.

This very brief EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 75-mph began just west of Gore Orphanage Road in Kipton. As the tornado moved northeastward, it removed portions of metal siding and roofing at a farmstead. Among the metal debris, some was twisted, some was blown into a separate structure's west side at the farmstead, and some was scattered northeastward into a field east of Gore Orphanage Road. The tornado dissipated soon after crossing the aforementioned road.

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

20 minutes of warning. NWS CLE issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:44 UTC, 20 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 00:30 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 General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:44 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), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:06 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

7 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.