Name: Damaging Wind in Indiana, July 27, 2002
Start: 2002-07-27T06:00
End: 2002-07-27T06:05
Location: Indiana

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it. 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

Open the live radar over this ground

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $3,000
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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 27, 2:33 AM EST, 3 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 27, 2:33 AM EST, 3 hours 27 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
333 AM EDT SAT JUL 27 2002

A SERIES OF S/WVS TO SPILL OVR MID/UPR LVL RDG AXIS FM MID MS VLY
INTO GRTLKS/OH VLY THRU THE PERIOD. FCST CHALLENGE CONTS TO BE
TIMING AND CHC/S OF TSTMS IN TROPICAL AMS UNTIL CDFNT FROPA TAKES
PLACE OVRNGT MON.

IN SHORT TERM...MCS OVR CNTRL IL HS DVLPD RAPIDLY ESE ALONG AND
AHD OF WRMFNT WHICH EXTENDS FM CNTRL IL THRU SRN IN. XPCT THIS
TREND TO CONT WITH SCTD ELEVATED TSTMS DVLPG ALONG FAVORABLE
AXIS OF LO LVL MSTR CONVERGENCE INTO SE IN/SW OH. THIS WRMFNT
SHUD CONT TO BE FOCUS FOR CONVECTION TDA. WL CONT CHC POPS ACRS
THE ENTIRE REGION WITH THE HIGHEST POPS SW. TEMP WISE...HAVE
GONE CLOSE TO WRMR FWC GUID VALUES.

S/WV ENERGY AND ASSOCIATED FAVORABLE LO LVL CONVERGENCE AXIS
TO SHIFT N INTO GRTLKS REGION OVRNGT. WL MENTION CHC POPS
ACRS THE CNTRL AND N THIS EVE. IN WARM AND MOIST AMS WITH
SWRLY WINDS STAYING UP BTWN 8-10 MPH...PREFER LOW TEMPS
CLOSER TO WRMR MAV GUID TNGT.

ON SUN...MID/UPR LVL RDG BLDS INTO OH VLY WITH MAIN STORM
TRACK TO THE N ACRS GRTLKS ASSOCIATED WITH BAND OF WESTERLIES.
FCST SOUNDINGS INDICATE THAT SRN SECTIONS WL BE CAPPED ON SUN...SO
WL DROP MENT OF PRECIP BUT WL MAINTAIN LO POP CHC ACRS THE N.
WL TREND HI TEMPS CLOSER TO WRMR MET GUID SUN.

FLO BACKS IN RESPONSE TO S/WV TROF OVR MID MS VLY WHICH TRACKS
INTO GRTLKS MON. MON/MON NIGHT APPEARS TO BE THE BEST CHC FOR
ORGANIZED TSTMS WITH FNT DROPPING THRU THE AREA. WL CONT 50 POPS
ACRS THE ENTIRE CWA BUT WL CUT HI TEMPS BACK A LTL DUE TO XPCTD
CLDS AND PRECIP.

.ILN...NONE.
RANDALL

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 27, 5:31 AM EST, 29 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
631 AM EDT SAT JUL 27 2002

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

0415 AM    SPRINGBORO                OH   WIND DAMAGE
07/27/02   WARREN                         NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

AR

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 10:58 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment

Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Wayne

When: July 27, 6:00 AM EST to 6:05 AM EST
Where: Wayne County, 4 mi E of Centerville
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph)
Property damage: $3,000
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 39.817, -84.917

Two trees were blown down.

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 Indiana in 2002 Every state in 2002 This day in weather history Warnings in Indiana, July 2002

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: 5312005.