1 flash flood, 1 hail, 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 29, 1:30 AM EST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
230 AM EDT SUN JUL 29 2001
ALL MODELS DROP VORT ACROSS THE FA EARLY TODAY...BUT DIFFER A LITTLE
ON TIMING. ETA/AVN A LITTLER QUICKER THAN NGM AS THEY HAVE VORT
INTO WV BY 18Z...WHILE NGM HOLDS IT BACK INTO OH. PCPN ALWAYS SEEM
TO HOLD ON LITTLE LONGER THAN MODELS EXPECT IN THE SE...SO WILL
SLOW THINGS DOWN AND LINGER PCPN IN THE SE INTO THE AFTERNOON. ALL
MODELS SHOW NEGATIVE LI IN THE AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WEST...BUT THERE
IS GOOD SUBSIDENCE IN THE AFTERNOON...SO FEEL THAT ANY CONVECTION
WILL BE SUPPRESSED.
PW REMAIN AROUND TWO INCHES DURING THE MORNING HOURS...AND WITH VORT
STILL TO SWING THROUGH...WILL LEAVE FFA ALONE.
SECOND VORT DROPS SE INTO THE OH OVERNIGHT. AVN A LITTLE QUICKER
BRINGING A LOBE INTO THE FA BY LATE AFTERNOON. PREFER THE SLOWER
ETA SOLUTION. WITH VORT COMING IN OVERNIGHT...ATMOSPHERE SHOULD HAVE
LOST SOME OF ITS INSTABILITY. WILL KEEP TONIGHT DRY.
HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN FOR MONDAY.
AS FOR TEMPERATURES MOS LOOKS TO BE RUNNING WARM BY A DEGREE OR SO
EACH PERIOD...SO WILL GO CLOSER TO CURRENT FORECAST.
CLEMISILN OUT LATER.
.ILN...FLA9SH FLOOD WATCH TIL 8 AM EDT FOR SE INDIANA...SW OH...
N CNTRL KY
FLASH FLOOD WATCH TIL NOON FOR S CNTRL OH AND NE KY.
SITESThe Cincinnati radar (KILN), 55 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:59 UTC.
1 flash flood, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused flooded roads.
Thunderstorms produced dime size hail.
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: 5257099, 5257100.