8 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash 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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 17, 2:15 PM EST, 4 hours 52 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 315 PM EDT TUE JUL 17 2001 19Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED A WEAK FRONTAL BOUNDARY ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES STATES. AN OUTFLOW BOUNDARY WAS APPARENT ON THE KILN 88D BTWN ILN AND CMH. SCT SHRA/TSRA WERE OCCURING ACROSS FA. A MORE ORGANIZED AREA OF SHRA/TSRA WERE DROPPING SEWD ACROSS NRN IN. XPCT MCS OVER NRN IN TO MOVE SEWD INTO FA DURING THE LATE PM AND EVENING HOURS. THIS SHOULD BRING MORE WIDESPREAD COVERAGE OF SHRA/TSRA THAN TODAY. WL CARRY LIKELY POPS ALL AREAS TONIGHT. PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF SHRA/TSRA SHOULD PREVENT EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS SO WL NOT MENTION HEAVY RAIN IN FCST. DO NOT TRUST MODEL TIMING FOR THE WED-THU TIME FRAME. SYNOPTIC ENVIRONMENT SUGGESTS THAN ATMOSPHERE WL BE UNSTABLE WITH A BOUNDARY NEARBY THROUGH THOSE PERIODS. XPCT SHRA/TSRA TO PERIODICALLY MOVE FROM NW TO SE ACROSS FA SO WL CARRY CHC POPS. BEST CHANCE OF SVR WL BEE WED PM OR EVENING IF WE GET MORE SS THAN TODAY. TEMPS ARE TOUGH DUE TO UNCERTAINTY OF SHRA/TSRA PLACMENT. WL STICK CLOSE TO GUIDANCE. .ILN...NONE. WILKINSON
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
8 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several trees were blown down throughout town.
Trees and powerlines were knocked down across town.
Trees were knocked down across the southern part of the county.
Trees were blown down across the county.
Damage was reported to State Route 131 and other county roads, with eight to ten bridges washed out.
An unoccupied truck was swept away in high water near Peebles. Minor damage sustained by a few homes and roadways across the northern part of the county.
Roads flooded across the county. Twenty homes and trailers were evacuated due to high water.
Several state, county and township roads incurred culvert and/or beam damage. 159 dwellings and one nursing home with damage across county. A stream was out of its banks at the intersection of State Routes 73 and 177. Total estimate of public assistance is 1,465,350.
One hundred homes sustained damage with two destroyed from high water. A resident lost six cars when water flooded his garage. Several roads across county sustained minor damage. Total estimate of public assistance is 603,916.
389 dwellings sustained damage due to flooding. Several businesses were flooded along Mill Creek in Sharonville. Two people, a young woman, 21, and her father, 48, died in their flooded basement in Fairfax, when Little Duck Creek flooded in their neighborhood. A young woman, 16, was swept away while attempting to escape a vehicle which had become trapped in high water on a bridge. Total estimate of public assistance is 3,565,315.
Eleven bridges along county and township roads sustained damage in Miami, Goshen, Wayne and Gardner Townships. Four hundred homes, four businesses, two public buildings and more than two dozen cars, driveways and private bridges were damaged due to the high water. Total estimate of public assistance is 1,786,058.
Trees were knocked down across the county.
Thousands of trees were knocked down near Batavia.
Large limbs were knocked down.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood, Hamilton | 2001-07-18 | 21 | Female | Permanent Home | Direct |
| Flash Flood, Hamilton | 2001-07-18 | 48 | Male | Permanent Home | Direct |
| Flash Flood, Hamilton | 2001-07-18 | 16 | Female | In Water | Direct |
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, July 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: 5256937, 5256938, 5256939, 5256940, 5256945, 5256946, 5256948, 5257024, 5256947, 5256941, 5257022, 5257023, 5256942, 5256943, 5256944.