Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 22, 2001

Name: Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 22, 2001
Start: 2001-08-22T15:25
End: 2001-08-22T20:30
Location: Ohio

August 22, 2001 · NWS IWX · 7 events in 3 counties and zones

4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 7

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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 22, 2:50 PM EST, 35 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 22, 2:50 PM EST, 35 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
250 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001

FCST CHALLENGES ARE SVR AND FLOOD POTENTIAL FOR TONIGHT.

SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED WRMFNT EXTENDING FROM SRN WI TO SERN IN.
CDFNT EXTD FM NRN LMIC ACRS CNTRL WI TO ERN NE.  MSAS DATA
AND GOES DATA INDICATED VERY UNSTABLE AIRMASS IN THE WARM SECTOR
WITH CAPES TO OVR 4K AND LI VALUES IN THE MINUS 6 TO MINUS 10
RANGE.  THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING ALONG CDFNT...WHILE OTHER
STORMS EXTD FM CNTRL LMIC TO NW OH. MODELS IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH
INITIATING TS COMPLEX OVR SRN WI...NRN IL AND NE IA THIS AFT AND
BRINGING SYS ACRS CWFA TONIGHT...THOUGH AVN OFFERING A SOMEWHAT
SLOWER SOLUTION. GIVEN CURRENT DEVELOPMENT...ETA LOOKS TO HAVE
SOMEWHAT BETTER PLACEMENT. WITH REGARD TO THE CDFNT...HOWEVER...ETA
LOOKS TO BE TOO FAST DROPPING FNT S OF CWFA...SO WL LEAN TOWARD AVN
SPEED...WHICH IS A COMPROMISE BETWEEN FASTER ETA AND SLOWER NGM.
WITH STRONG WND FIELD...50 KTS IN 5 TO 10 K FT LYR AND GOOD
INSTABILITY...SVR STORMS POSSIBLE.  PW VALUES OF 1.5 TO 1.75 INCHES
ALSO INDICATE HEAVY RAIN POTENTIAL.  BASED ON SLOWER TIMING OF AVN...
WL HOLD ON TO A CHC POP FOR AM SHRA OR TSRA FOR THU...THEN FCST
LOOKS DRY AS HI PRES CNTR TO NE USHERS IN DRIER AIR. FNT WL BEGIN TO
LIFT BACK TO NE ON SAT...SO WL KEEP CHC OF TSRA...BUT WORD AS LATE
IN THE AFT.  F120 AVN INDICATES SLOWER AND DEEPER SYS MOVING OUT OF
CNTRL PLAINS...SO WL HOLD ON TO POPS FOR BOTH SUN AND MON. RDG
ALOFT AND AT SFC SHOULD BRING DRY WEATHER FOR TUE AND WED.

AS FOR TEMPS...BASED ON TRAJECTORIES AND CURRENT DWPTS...WL GO ABOVE
FWC AND MAV NUMBERS FOR TONIGHT. PREFER SLIGHT WARMER FWC NUMBERS
FOR THU GIVEN WARM START AND SOME SUNSHINE.  FWC AND MAV NUMBERS IN
GOOD AGREEMENT LATER PDS AND LOOK REASONABLE BASED ON BLYR AND
85H TEMP SCHEMES.

.IWX...NONE.

BARJENBRUCH

In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 22, 12:35 PM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
1235 PM EST WED AUG 22 2001

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1145 AM    COLDWATER                 MI   WIND DAMAGE
08/22/01   BRANCH                         TREES DOWNED. REPORTED
                                          BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
                                          OFFICIAL.

The radar

The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 97 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:24 UTC.

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Event by event

4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Williams

When: August 22, 3:25 PM EST
Where: Williams County, Bryan
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 41.467, -84.550

Tree blown down onto trailer.

Hail, Paulding

When: August 22, 5:44 PM EST
Where: Paulding County, 2 mi W of Mc Gill
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 41.017, -84.800

Hail, Paulding

When: August 22, 5:44 PM EST
Where: Paulding County, Mc Gill
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 41.017, -84.767

Hail, Paulding

When: August 22, 5:48 PM EST
Where: Paulding County, 1 mi W of Payne
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.083, -84.733

Hail, Paulding

When: August 22, 6:00 PM EST
Where: Paulding County, 1 mi W of Mc Gill
Measured: 2.75 in hail
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 41.017, -84.783

Thunderstorm Wind, Van Wert

When: August 22, 8:20 PM EST
Where: Van Wert County, Wren
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.800, -84.767

Tree blown down onto power lines.

Thunderstorm Wind, Van Wert

When: August 22, 8:30 PM EST
Where: Van Wert County, Ohio City
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 40.767, -84.617

Tree blown down onto power lines.

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.
Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Ohio in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5264121, 5264122, 5264123, 5264124, 5264125, 5264126, 5264208.