1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 Apr 17, 2:48 PM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 300 PM EDT WED APR 17 2002 THUNDERSTORMS HAVE FIRED UP THIS AFTERNOON ASSOCIATED WITH A WEAK UPPER LEVEL WAVE WHICH IS MOVING THROUGH THE FA THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. WILL KEEP MENTION OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EARLY. TOMORROW WILL SEE CONTINUED WARM TEMPERATURES AND GOOD INSTABILITY. HOWEVER...LITTLE FORCING TOMORROW SO WILL DROP MENTION OF SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. NEXT MAJOR SYSTEM TO EFFECT FA WILL REACH AREA THURSDAY NIGHT/FRIDAY. SOME DIFFERENCE IN TIMING OF MODELS. WILL TREND TOWARD THE SLOWER MOVEMENT OF THE AVN AND BRING PRECIPITATION IN LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND CONTINUE IT THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT INTO SATURDAY. USED A COMBINATION OF FWC/MAV TEMPERATURES. .ILN...NONE PARKER
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
428 PM EDT WED APR 17 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
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0355 PM FAIRFIELD OH WIND DAMAGE
04/17/02 BUTLER NUMEROUS TREES DOWN IN THE
FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP
GATThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
A person received minor injuries from a lightning strike. Time is estimated.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, April 2002
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: 5293276.