1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jun 23, 12:48 PM EST, 4 hours 55 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 148 PM EDT SAT JUN 23 2001 LTST WV SATL IMGRY SHWS UPR LO OVR NW OH WITH S/WV DROPPING SE THRU CNTRL IN. THIS S/WV TO DROP INTO BASE OF TROF INTO NRN KY BY EVE. PVA...700MB CNVRGC AND COLD POOL ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH UPR TROF HS LED TO DVLPMNT OF SCTD SHWRS AND ISOLD TSTMS IN THE WRN OH/ERN IN. SFC RUC INDICATES MARGINAL INSTBY AND AXIS OF MSTR CNVRGC. XPCT THIS PRECIP ACTVTY TO DIMINISH WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING. WL WATCH RADAR TRENDS WITH AN EVE PD PLANNED FOR SCTD COVERAGE OF PRECIP. SFC HI PRES FM NRN IL THRU NRN IN TO BLD SLOWLY EWD ACRS SRN GRTLKS THRU PD. UPR TROF TO PIVOT E WITH AXIS TO ERN OH BY MRNG. IN THE WAKE OF S/WV XPCT SKIES TO SLOWLY CLR DURG THE EVE HRS IN THE W AND BCM PTLY CLDY IN THE E. PREFER LOWS A LTL COOLER THAN GUID TNGT IN LIGHT WND REGIME WITH CLRG SKIES. UPR TROF TO REMAIN QUASI-STATIONARY SUN WITH UPR LO CUTTING OFF OVR ERN TN SUN AFTN. COLDEST TEMPS ALOFT WL EXIST OVR S CNTRL OH/NE KY WHERE A LO POP CHC OF SHWRS WL BE INCLUDED SUN AFTN. BASED ON H8 TEMPS...TDA/S READINGS AND LO LVL THICKNESSES PREFER HI/S A COUPLE DEGS COOLER THAN GUID SUN. UPR LO CUTT OFF FM FLO TO RETROGRADE SLOWLY W THRU THE WEEK. MODEL TRENDS A LTL FARTHER S WITH THIS FEATURE. WL GO WITH 30 POPS IN THE FAR S ON MON AFTN CLOSER TO TN VLY UPR LO WHERE UPR TEMPS WL BE THE COLDEST. AGN HV GONE A COUPLE DEGS COOLER THAN GUID WITH HIGHS. .ILN...NONE. RANDALL
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:41 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain which caused high water on roads.
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, June 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: 5248022.