High Wind, Ashland
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Ashland forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.846, -82.271 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Ohio, December 14, 2001
Strong low pressure moved northeast across Ohio during the afternoon and early evening hours. Damaging southwest winds occurred late in the afternoon with winds quickly shifting to the northwest during the evening as a trailing cold front moved across the area.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 13 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
- $225,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 13
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.
Strong low pressure moved northeast across Ohio during the afternoon and early evening hours. Damaging southwest winds occurred late in the afternoon with winds quickly shifting to the northwest during the evening as a trailing cold front moved across the area. Many trees were downed and scattered power outages were also reported. Knox County was hardest hit with a barn blown off of its foundation and several dozen trees downed. Also hard hit were Portage and Trumbull Counties where widespread power outages occurred.
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 Dec 14, 2:55 PM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 14, 2:55 PM EST, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 255 PM EST FRI DEC 14 2001 SFC LOW NR MNN/MFD MID AFTN TRACK ACRS CWA ERY THIS EVNG. VRTY WX ACRS AREA WITH SOME S EXTRM NW OH TO SHWRS GUSTY WINDS SE PTN AND COOL WET N. EXPCT MIXED PCPN THIS EVNG NW WITH RSHWRS/R PSBLY MIXING WITH S AS LOW PULLS OFF TO ENE. RAIN WL END THIS EVNG W ARND MIDN OR SHORTLY AFTER IN E. WL NOT GO WITH WIND ADV OUR AREA...WINDS WL BE GUSTY THIS EVNG BUT EXPCT TO STAY BLO ADV CRITERIA FOR OUR AREA. THEN HI PRES BLDG ACRS AREA ON SAT WITH SKIES BCMG MSTLY SNY TAKING MOST OF THE DAY TO CLR OUT IN FAR E. BRING RAIN BACK IN ON SUN...LKLY POPS FAR W WITH CHC ERN OH LATE IN DAY KEEPING FAR ERN OH AND WRN PA CNTY DRY UNTIL SUN NITE. .CLE... OH...GALE WARNING FOR LAKE ERIE WEST HALF. PA...NONE.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
13 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Ashtabula
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Ashtabula forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.896, -80.759 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Holmes
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Holmes forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.561, -81.929 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Knox
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Knox forecast zone
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.399, -82.421 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Mahoning
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Mahoning forecast zone
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.015, -80.776 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Medina
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Medina forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.118, -81.900 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Morrow
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Morrow forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.524, -82.794 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Portage
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Portage forecast zone
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.168, -81.197 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Richland
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Richland forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.775, -82.536 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Stark
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Stark forecast zone
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.814, -81.366 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Summit
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Summit forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.126, -81.532 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Trumbull
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Trumbull forecast zone
- Property damage
- $35,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.317, -80.761 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Wayne
- When
- December 14, 3:00 PM EST to 7:00 PM EST
- Where
- Wayne forecast zone
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.829, -81.888 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
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
- High Wind in Ohio, December 14, 2001
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, December 14, 2001
- High Wind in West Virginia, December 14, 2001
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- High Wind in West Virginia, December 14, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, December 14, 2001
- Winter Storm in Colorado, December 14 to 15, 2001
- High Wind in Pennsylvania, December 14 to 15, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Utah, December 14 to 15, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, December 14 to 15, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Maine, December 14 to 15, 2001
More
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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: 5273974, 5273975, 5273976, 5273977, 5273978, 5274299, 5274411, 5274412, 5274413, 5274414, 5274415, 5274416, 5274417.