Dense fog was a significant contributing factor to two accidents. The first accident occurred on the southeast side of Beavercreek in Greene county.
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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 episode as NWS ILN wrote it up.
Dense fog was a significant contributing factor to two accidents. The first accident occurred on the southeast side of Beavercreek in Greene county. At the intersection of Factory Road and State Route 35, one person was killed and one injured when a vehicle failed to stop at a red light. The second accident occurred in Huntsville in Logan county where one person was killed and two injured.
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 Nov 17, 3:51 AM EST, 4 hours 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 351 AM EST SAT NOV 17 2001 11-3.9 SATELLITE WINDOW INDICATES DENSE FOG OVER MUCH OF FA WITH THE FAR SOUTHWEST BEING SPARED AT THE MOMENT. SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS WASHED OUT FRONT FRONT ACROSS NORTHERN KY AND SOUTHEAST INDIANA. WILL EXPAND DENSE FOG ADVISORY SOUTH WITH THIS ISSUANCE THROUGH 10 AM. THE ONLY PART OF FA THAT WILL NOT BE IN ADVISORY IS THE FAR SOUTHWEST. MODELS ARE ALL IN GOOD AGREEMENT THROUGH 36 HOURS AND THEN BEGIN TO DIVERGE. ETA IS THE FASTEST WITH THE AVN AND UKMET BEING SLOWER. DPROG/DT ON THE AVN INDICATES THAT THE AVN HAS BEEN SPEEDING UP AND APPEARS TO BE LOCKING ON WITH THE PAST TWO RUNS. THUS WILL GO WITH AVN/UKMET SOLUTION FOR FRONTAL PASSAGE ON MONDAY. WILL BUMP UP POPS IN THE WEST ON MONDAY WITH BETTER POPS IN THE EAST MONDAY NIGHT. WILL ALSO BUMP UP TEMPS A BIT WITH A SLOWER SOLUTION. FOG WILL BURN OFF AROUND MID MORNING RESULTING IN MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES. WILL STICK CLOSE TO FWC TEMPS TODAY. UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES TO BUILD OVER THE OHIO VALLEY TONIGHT AND SUNDAY. WILL GO SEVERAL DEGREES ABOVE FWC CLOSER TO MAV FOR SUNDAY WITH PLENTY OF SUNSHINE. AS FOR LOWS WILL STICK CLOSE TONIGHT AND SUNDAY NIGHT. CLOUDS WILL INCREASE WITH THE APPROACH OF THE FRONT SUNDAY NIGHT. MISILN WILL BE OUT SHORTLY. .ILN... IN...DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 1000 AM EST SATURDAY FOR ZONES INZ050...INZ058>059. DENSE FOG ADVISORY FROM 415 AM EST SATURDAY UNTIL 1000 AM EST SATURDAY FOR ZONES INZ066...INZ073>075. KY...DENSE FOG ADVISORY FROM 415 AM EST SATURDAY UNTIL 1000 AM EST SATURDAY FOR ZONES KYZ091>093...KYZ097>100. OH...DENSE FOG ADVISORY UNTIL 1000 AM EST SATURDAY FOR ZONES OHZ026...OHZ034>035...OHZ042>046...OHZ051>056...OHZ060>065... OHZ073>074. DENSE FOG ADVISORY FROM 415 AM EST SATURDAY UNTIL 1000 AM EST SATURDAY FOR ZONES OHZ070>072...OHZ077>082...OHZ088. TIPTON
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dense Fog, Greene | 2001-11-17 | 47 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | Direct |
| Dense Fog, Logan | 2001-11-17 | 73 | Female | Vehicle/Towed Trailer | 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, November 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: 5274154, 5274155.