Hail, Montgomery
- When
- May 24, 12:18 PM EST to 12:28 PM EST
- Where
- Montgomery County, New Lebanon
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 39.750, -84.383
Tornado and Flash Flood in Ohio, May 24, 2001
3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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
- $8,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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 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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 24, 8:39 AM EST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 24, 8:39 AM EST, 3 hours 39 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 939 AM EDT THU MAY 24 2001 13Z SFC ANALYSIS INDICATED LOW PRESSURE ALONG THE IA-IL BORDER WITH A BOUNDARY EXTENDING SEWD ACROSS IN AND KY. S/WV LIFTING OUT OF LARGE MID LVL LOW OVER IA WAS CAUSING WDSPRD SHRA WITH A FEW TSRA ACROSS FA. DRIER AIR WAS WORKING INTO KCVG AREA AND XPCT THIS TREND TO CONTINUE OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS. THIS WL LEAD TO SOME HEATING AND RESULT IN FURTHER DESTABLIZATION. THUS...XPCT SHRA/TSRA TO CONTINUE MOVG NEWD THROUGH THE EARLY PM WITH ADDITIONAL SCATTERED DEVELOPMENT IN THE PM. WL LIKELY CUT POPS BACK FOR THE PM HOURS CVG-DAY. WITH SOME BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS...XPCT TEMPS TO CLIMB INTO THE 60S ACROSS FA. CURRENT FCST HAS THIS TREND HANDLED SO NO CHANGES PLANNED. .ILN...NONE. WILKINSON
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 61 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:09 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Greene
- When
- May 24, 1:25 PM EST to 1:35 PM EST
- Where
- Greene County, Beavercreek
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 39.750, -84.067
Hail reported covering the ground
Hail, Clark
- When
- May 24, 2:15 PM EST to 2:25 PM EST
- Where
- Clark County, Catawba
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- POST OFFICE
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -83.617
Hail reported covering the ground
Tornado, Clinton
- When
- May 24, 6:37 PM EST to 6:40 PM EST
- Where
- Clinton County, 2 mi SE of Wilmington
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.433, -83.800
A brief tornado touchdown was observed by air traffic controller at Wilmington Airport
Flash Flood, Fayette
- When
- May 24, 8:55 PM EST to 10:00 PM EST
- Where
- Fayette County, 5 mi NW of Bloomingburg
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 39.560, -83.456 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Water was reported covering State Route 38 between Interstate 71 and Bloomingburg
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, May 24, 2001
- Hail in Louisiana, May 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Washington, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 24, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, May 24 to 30, 2001
- Tornado in Alabama, May 24, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 24, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 24, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Virginia, May 24, 2001
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Ohio, 2001Warnings in Ohio, May 2001
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: 5248948, 5248949, 5248951, 5248952, 5248950.