High Wind, Ashtabula
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Ashtabula forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.896, -80.759 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Ohio, February 25, 2001
An area of very strong low pressure moved across the Great Lakes during the day and caused damaging southwest to west winds in northern Ohio. A 58 mph wind gust was measured in Stark County shortly before noon.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 23 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
- $460,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 23
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.
An area of very strong low pressure moved across the Great Lakes during the day and caused damaging southwest to west winds in northern Ohio. A 58 mph wind gust was measured in Stark County shortly before noon. Dozens of trees were knocked down across the area with most of the damage occurring during the middle part of the day. A small barn was blown down in Richland County and a house in Crawford County had a wall damaged. A cinder block wall at a construction site in Huron County was toppled and several homes lost siding in Summit County. A building in Geauga County suffered major roof damage with several other structures in northern Ohio sustaining minor roof damage. A few power poles and road signs were also blown down.
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 Feb 25, 3:45 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 3:45 AM EST, 3 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 345 AM EST SUN FEB 25 2001 MAIN PROBLEM FOR TDY IS THE WIND. SFC WNDS HAV INCRSD DUE TO STG LOW LVL WNDS ALG & AHD OF THE APCHG CDFNT. WITH THE SHWRS & FNTL PASS XPCT STG WND GUSTS PSBLY RCHG 60 MPH OR MORE TDY. WL ISSUE A HIGH WIND WRNG FOR ALL OF THE CWA TDY. WAA OCCURG ATTM BOOSTG TEMPS INTO THE 40S & 50S. NICE DRY SLOT SHULD END THE PCPN FROM THE W FROM AFTN ON. CULD BE A MIX OR CHGOVR TO SNW OVR THE FAR NE OH/NW PA BFR ENDG OVRNGT. XPCT WINDS TO SUBSIDE QUICKLY & THE PCPN TO END AS THE LOW MOVS OFF TO THE NE TNGT. MON & PSBLY TUE APPEARS TO BE THE BEST DAYS THIS WEEK AS HI PRES BLDS ACRS THE AREA. THEN A TROF DVLPS WI AN ARCTIC FLOW BY WED. ...MISCLE AVBL... .CLE... OH...HIGH WIND WRNG FOR ALL OF THE CWA TODAY. PA...DITTO SEM
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
23 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Crawford
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Crawford forecast zone
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.851, -82.920 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Cuyahoga
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Cuyahoga forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.479, -81.678 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Erie
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Erie forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.432, -82.700 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Geauga
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Geauga forecast zone
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.500, -81.179 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Hancock
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Hancock forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.002, -83.666 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Holmes
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 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, Huron
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Huron forecast zone
- Property damage
- $20,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.146, -82.598 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Lake
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Lake forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.714, -81.245 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Lorain
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Lorain forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.453, -82.151 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Lucas
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Lucas forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.684, -83.468 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Mahoning
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Mahoning forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.015, -80.776 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Marion
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Marion forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.587, -83.161 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Morrow
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 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, Ottawa
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Ottawa forecast zone
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.497, -82.941 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Richland
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Richland forecast zone
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.775, -82.536 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Seneca
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Seneca forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.124, -83.128 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Stark
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Stark forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.814, -81.366 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Summit
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Summit forecast zone
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.126, -81.532 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Trumbull
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Trumbull forecast zone
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.317, -80.761 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Wayne
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Wayne forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.829, -81.888 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Wood
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Wood forecast zone
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.362, -83.623 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind, Wyandot
- When
- February 25, 7:00 AM EST to 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Wyandot forecast zone
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 40.842, -83.304 (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
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- High Wind in Wisconsin, February 25, 2001
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- High Wind in Pennsylvania, February 25, 2001
- High Wind in West Virginia, February 25, 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: 5235091, 5235092, 5235093, 5235094, 5235095, 5235096, 5235097, 5235098, 5235099, 5235100, 5235101, 5235102, 5235103, 5235104, 5235105, 5235106, 5235107, 5235108, 5235109, 5235110, 5235111, 5235112, 5235113.