2 thunderstorm wind, 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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 26, 1:30 PM EST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 230 PM EDT SAT MAY 26 2001 NOT MUCH HAS CHGED SINCE THE LAST FEW DAYS. VORT COMING INTO THE WSTRN PART OF THE AREA TNGHT WITH NVA OVR ERN OH/NW PA WITH CHC OF RAIN DCRG EWD. OCNL POPS W...LIKELY CNTRL AND CHC E TNGHT. THEN SUN PVA SWINGS ACRS ENTR AREA WITH OCNL POPS THRUOUT...DITTO SUN NGHT. WL BE A LTL MORE OPTOMISTIC IN WRN AREAS MON AS LO LOOKS LIKE IT WL FINALLY BE MVG E. WL HOWEVER CONT LIKELY POPS IN ERN 2/3 OF THE AREA. WITH RAIN AND CLDS AND 850 TEMPS NOT MUCH DIFF THAN TDA AND SUN...IT SEEMS GUID HAS THE TEMPS A BIT TOO HI...LIKE MAYBE 5-8 DEG SO LWRD THOSE. .CLE... .OH...NONE .PA...NONGE.
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 136 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:29 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds downed two trees and several large tree limbs. One of the trees landed on a house and caused minor structural damage. Fallen tree limbs also damaged two cars.
Thunderstorm winds downed two large trees and leveled a large tent on the east side of Bellevue or about two miles west of Strongs Ridge.
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, May 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: 5246601, 5246600.