EF1 tornado, Clark, Ohio, June 9, 2025

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 9, 2025

Touchdown

5:25 PM EDT (21:25 UTC)

Lifted

5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)

On the ground

3 minutes

Path length

1.3 miles (2.1 km)

Path width

80 yards (73 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$100,000

County

Holmes County

Touchdown point

40.469, -81.916

Lift-off point

40.479, -81.895

Record number

2506091525-01

At the surface, a cold front extended southwestward across eastern Lake Erie, northeast OH, and southwest OH, and drifted eastward across the same areas during the early afternoon through mid-evening of the 9th. Along the cold front, a line of multicell thunderstorms impacted Holmes County and vicinity, and produced a weak mesovortex-related tornado in the Lake Buckhorn community and vicinity. The line of storms persisted generally east-northeastward in an ambient environment comprised of weak MUCAPE, strong effective bulk shear, favorable mixed layer LCL's less than 1500 meters AGL, but surface-based ESRH less than 100 meters squared per second squared.

An EF1 tornado with estimated peak winds of 105-mph impacted the Lake Buckhorn community and vicinity. It began just west of the intersection of Susten Drive and Geneva Drive. The tornado then moved northeastward across Mullheim Drive and W Buckhorn Drive and through the Lake Buckhorn community. Dozens of trees were snapped or uprooted in a neighborhood on the west side of Lake Buckhorn. Some of the trees had trunks estimated to be between one and two feet in diameter, and the tornado was at its widest point of 80 yards near the west shore of the lake. A pontoon boat and adjacent dock were also lifted partially by the tornado. The tornado then crossed Lake Buckhorn and weakened gradually, but dozens of additional trees were downed on the east side of the lake as the tornado crossed East Buckhorn Drive and traversed Lucerne Drive. The tornado then crossed OH Route 83 and damaged the roof of a barn 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.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 18:47 UTC and running to 22:19 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. The outlook in force was issued at 19:59 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), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 21:26 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

6 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.