Thunderstorm Wind, Lucas
- When
- August 18, 8:15 PM EST
- Where
- Lucas County, West Toledo
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- UTILITY COMPANY
- Coordinates
- 41.700, -83.567
Thunderstorm winds downed two large tree limbs just west of West Toledo.
Damaging Wind in Ohio, August 18, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- $2,000
- 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 forecasters said that day
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 Aug 18, 4:38 PM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 18, 4:38 PM EST, 3 hours 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 538 PM EDT SAT AUG 18 2001 WL UPDATE ZONE FORECAST TO INCLUDE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 678. KOSARIK 240 PM EDT DISCUSSION... SCT SHWRS OVER ERN PTN CWA THIS AFTN ASC WITH WK S/W UPR LVL JET. SHWRS TSTM WITH VIG UPR LVL S/W AND SFC LOW/CDFNT NR CHI WL MOV E SPRDG SHWRS/TSTM ACRS THE CWA AGAIN TNGT. WL PLACE SOME TIMING ON PCPN WITH CHC POPS THIS EVNG THEN CAT W...CHC TO CAT POPS AFT MIDN CNTRL WHILE STAYING WITH CHC POPS FAR E. NGM TRACKS SFC LOW LTL FURTHER S AND FASTER THAN ETS AND AVN PUTTING HVYR RAINFALL OVR CWA BUT PREFER THE SLIGHTLY MORE NRN TRACK BUT STILL SHUD SEE FAIR AMNT RAIN FROM THIS SYSTEM. CAT POPS TO START OUT THE DAY ON SUNDAY WL DROP BACK TO CHC OVER WRN AREAS DURING THE AFTN. AS SFC AND UPR LOW TRACK SLOWLY NE JUST N CWA SUN NITE AND MON WL CONT WITH LKLY POPS SUN NITE FAR ERN OTRW CHC POPS. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 6:20 PM EST, 1 hour 55 minutes before
OHZ003-006>009-017>019-027-028-036-190130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 720 PM EDT SAT AUG 18 2001 THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE EXPANDING ACROSS NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENING AND A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM. THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST FROM NORTHERN INDIANA INTO NORTHWEST OHIO THIS EVENING. THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD ACROSS MOST OF NORTHWEST OHIO BETWEEN 8 AND 10 PM. THERE IS A CHANCE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. WIND DAMAGE HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SOME OF THE STORMS IN NORTHERN INDIANA. AREAS FROM FINDLAY AND MARION ON SOUTH APPEAR TO BE AT THE GREATEST RISK FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. NONETHELESS...RESIDENTS ACROSS ALL OF NORTHWEST OHIO SHOULD BE ALERT FOR THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. IF A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING IS ISSUED...TAKE SHELTER IN A STURDY BUILDING. THE SAFEST PLACE IS IN THE BASEMENT OR LOWEST FLOOR AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNINGS AND THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. KOSARIK
The radar
The Detroit radar (KDTX), 111 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:17 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Wildfire in California, August 18 to 25, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, August 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, August 18, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Indiana, August 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Indiana, August 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Florida, August 18, 2001
- Tornado in North Carolina, August 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, August 18, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, August 18, 2001
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, August 2001
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: 5265718.