UPDATE 2:45pm: A damage survey team from the National Weather Service in Cleveland investigated storm damage in Trumbull County (northeast) Ohio and confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in the area at around 10:25 Tuesday morning. The wind speed within the tornado was estimated to have reached up to 100 mph. The tornado touched down just northeast of Champion Township and moved eastward across Mosquito Creek Lake and then into the western part of Cortland. The tornado knowcked down numerous trees and wires along it's path. Significant damage to a cemetery outbuilding also occured just west of Mosquito Creek Lake, along with some other minior property damge.

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Despite the calendar saying January, a rare line of severe storms moved across northeast Ohio Tuesday morning, spawning reports of some wind damage and even a report of a tornado touchdown. The storms moved into the area just south of Cleveland at around 9:55 a.m. The line of storms moved eastward where residents from Championship Township to Cortland spotted a tornado.

The Trumbull County 911 Center told Spectrum News 1 that they received reports of some trees and power lines down and some reports of structural damage including to a maintenance building. However, there were no reports of injuries.

The reported tornado lasted about 15 to 20 minutes before moving eastward into Pennsylvania. The National Weather Service is planning to investigate the area to determine if indeed the damage was caused by the reported tornado and if so, how strong the tornado is estimated to have been.

While severe weather is rare in the month of January across Ohio, it does happen, according to Spectrum News 1 Ohio Chief Meteorologist Eric Elwell. “Since 1940, we’ve had 7 tornadoes reported in Ohio during the month of January,” Elwell said. “However there have been no January tornadoes reported since the year 2000.” The National Weather Service says the tornado that touched down in Trumbull County was the first reported January tornado in that county since records have been kept.

The Storm Prediction Center has placed much of northeast and east-central Ohio under a “marginal risk” for severe storms through early Tuesday evening. This means the threat for severe storms the remainder of the day is quite low, but not completely zero according to Spectrum News 1 Ohio weather staff. “As we head into Tuesday evening, temperatures will begin to drop,” Elwell said, “which will end the threat for severe storms and bring in the threat for some flurries.”