EF0 tornado, Justus, Ohio, June 5, 2025

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

June 5, 2025

Touchdown

4:04 PM EDT (20:04 UTC)

Lifted

4:05 PM EDT (20:05 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.1 miles (0.2 km)

Path width

25 yards (23 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$10,000

County

Stark County

Touchdown point

40.683, -81.596

Lift-off point

40.683, -81.593

Record number

2506051404-01

At the surface, a cold front drifted southward across northern OH during the early afternoon through early evening of June 5th as one ridge moved little over and near the Mid-Atlantic states and Mid OH Valley, and another ridge built slowly from the Upper Great Lakes, behind the front. Along and ahead of the cold front, organized thunderstorms in the form of multicells and a few supercells moved generally eastward across northern OH during the late afternoon and early evening of the 5th. A weak mesocyclonic tornado occurred in southwestern Stark County and very isolated straight-line wind damage occurred in Stark and Holmes Counties. These storms occurred in an ambient environment that included weak to moderate MUCAPE and moderate effective bulk shear.

About two-miles SSE of Brewster, an EF0 tornado with estimated peak winds of 80-mph formed in an open field east of Manchester Avenue SW and south of Lawndell Road SW, and moved generally eastward during its lifespan. The tornado struck a well-built barn. Between 50 and 100 slate tiles were removed from the barn's roof, blown southward, and embedded in the adjacent field. Large tree branches were broken just to the east of the barn. Several of the these tree branches were also twisted, indicative of tornado-related damage. As the tornado then moved across the open field, it generated faint suction marks in the crop rows. The tornado then moved into a wooded area, where it knocked down two large trees before dissipating.

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.

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 19:54 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), 84 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:03 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 2025 tornado in OhioEvery tornado in Ohio since 1950Warnings in force in Ohio nowThe forecast where you are

16 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.