Name: Damaging Wind in Ohio, September 8, 2001
Start: 2001-09-08T19:00
End: 2001-09-08T19:00
Location: Ohio

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $10,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 8, 1:04 PM EST, 5 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 8, 1:04 PM EST, 5 hours 56 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
204 PM EDT SAT SEP 8 2001

LATEST MDL RUN CONTS TO SHOW AT LEAST A LTL BLDG OF THE UPR RDG AND
SFC RDG TO THE W OVR CWA LATE AFTN AND TNGT THEN GRDLY BRKG DWN ON
SUN AS FNT APPCHS FM W. PRVS RUNS HAD SERIES OF WK LOWS MOVG UP
CDFNT SLOWING THE EWRD PROGRESS OF THE FNT. LATEST RUNS APPEAR TO
BRING LAST WAVE OUT OF MO AND SHOOT IT TO THE NE...STILL W OF CWA.
ETA MDL APPEARS TO BE A TAD FASTER AT MOVG FNT ACRS CWA...LATE SUN
NGT AND MON MRNG. FNT LOSES QUITE A BIT OF ITS COLD PUNCH WITH MAJOR
THICKNESS PACKING RMNG WELL N OF STATE. WL KEEP A SML CHC FOR
SHWRS/TSTMS TNGT W AND CNTRL...NOTHING E. WL GO WITH LKLY POPS W SUN
AND SUN NGT...AND LWR CHC POPS CENTRL AND E SUN...GOING TO LKLY SUN
NGT. WL LINGER A SML CHC SHWRS ACRS ENTIRE CWA FOR MON MRNG ALTHO
THIS MAY NOT BE WARRANTED W.   GUID TMPS LOOK OK ALTHO AVN LOOKS A
BIT ON THE COOL SIDE.   WL LN A BIT MORE TWDS NGM NUMBERS.

.CLE...
.OH...NONE.
.PA...NONE.

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Sep 8, 5:29 PM EST, 1 hour 31 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
629 PM EDT SAT SEP 8 2001

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0532 PM    NEAR SYLVANIA             OH   WIND DAMAGE
09/08/01   LUCAS                          SEVERAL TREES AND POWER
                                          POLES DOWNED BY
                                          THUNDERSTORM WINDS.

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Lucas

When: September 8, 7:00 PM EST
Where: Lucas County, West Toledo
Property damage: $10,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 41.700, -83.567

Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees.

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Ohio in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Ohio, September 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: 5267824.