1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 6, 3:00 AM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 400 AM EDT FRI APR 6 2001 AREA OF SHWRS/TSTMS TRACKG E ALG WRMFNT THRU N OH ATTM. ACTVTY HAS INCRSD & A FEW OF THE STORMS HAS SHOWN GOOD VERTICAL HGT UP TO 37K & HVY RN. MODELS HAVE A FAIRLY GOOD HANDLE ON THIS EVENT WI SLGT DIFF IN THE LATER PDS. THE POSN OF THE FNT WL BE THE KEY WI THE TEMPS & STORMS AS THEY TRACK ALG THE FNT. THE RN SHULD COME TO AN END FRM W-E DURG THE DAY THEN ACTVTY PICKS UP TNGT & INTO SAT WI ANOTHER S/W VORT TRACKG OVR THE NRN PTNS OF THE CWA. THE MEANDERING STNRY FNT WL THEN LIFT NE AS THE UPR RDG BLDS PLACING US IN THE DRY WRM SECTOR FOR SUN. WI SLY WNDS & SS XPCT TEMPS TO RCH THE MID. 70S IN MST AREAS. THEN CDFNT SWEEPS THRU SUN NITE/MON PROVDG FOR ANOTHER ROUND OF SHWRS/TSTMS. ...MISCLE AVBL... .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and large tree limbs. A car was damaged and a mobile home had some skirting torn off. Two small sheds were also blown down.
Lightning struck a barn at a poultry farm and caused a fire. The fire completely destroyed a barn and killed 12,000 chickens inside.
The Huron River at Milan went into flood during the afternoon of the 6th and crested at 16.2 feet during the evening. The river fell back below flood stage early on the 7th. Flooding was observed in the lagoon communities.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, April 2001
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: 5241455, 5241457, 5241456.