High Wind, Sandusky
- When
- January 5, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Sandusky forecast zone
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 41.357, -83.144 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
One side of a manufacturing building under construction on State Route 53 N. in Fremont was brought down.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS CLE wrote it up.
One side of a manufacturing building under construction on State Route 53 N. in Fremont was brought down. The store window of a pharmacy in Clyde was blown out.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Winter Storm in New Mexico, January 5 to 6, 1997
- High Wind in California, January 5 to 7, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Tornado in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 5, 1997
- Tornado in Georgia, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, January 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, January 5, 1997
- Tornado in Alabama, January 5, 1997
More
Every storm in Ohio in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, January 1997
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5588965.