4 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 5 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 Jun 25, 1:40 PM EST, 2 hours 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 240 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 2002 WATER VAPOR IMAGERY THIS AFTN DEPICTED A CLOSED UPR LVL LOW NR THE ARKLATEX REGION. SUBTROPICAL MSTR ON THE EAST SIDE OF THIS LOW CONTS TO PUMP HIGH PWS INTO THE OHIO VLY. MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT WITH SFC SYNOPTIC FEATURES...BUT THEY DIFFER WITH WEAK VORTICIES IN THE FLOW ALOFT. MOST MODELS SUGGEST (40 KM RUC/ETA/AVN) THERE SHOULD BE A WEAK VORT MAX JUST SOUTH OF THE OHIO IN N CNTRL KY. THIS IS VERY HARD TO DISCERN ON THE WATER VAPOR. IT IS HARD TO TELL IF THE CURRENT CONVECTION OVER THE SWRN CWFA IS BEING INDUCED BY THIS VORT OR THE WELL DEFINED VORT LOBE PIVOTING THRU WRN KY/SW IN. SINCE THERE IS A STRONG CONSENSUS THAT THIS VORT MAX EXISTS...WILL BASE EVENING FCST ON THIS. THE WEAK VORT MAX OVER N CNTRL KY IS EXPECTED TO DRIFT TO THE N AND NE THRU THE EVENING. SCATTERED SHOWERS/TSTMS SHOULD EVENTUALLY END ACRS THE SRN CWFA BY LATE EVENING AND AROUND MIDNIGHT FOR DAY AND CMH. ANOTHER WEAK VORT MAX OVER NRN IL IS PROGGED TO MOVE E INTO NRN IN/NW OHIO BY MORNING. THE APCH OF THIS WEAK VORT MAY KEEP ACTIVITY GOING ALL NIGHT IN THE FAR NORTH. ON WEDNESDAY...LOW LVL CONV AHEAD OF COLD FRONT PUSHING SE FROM THE UPR MS RIVER VLY WILL BE FOCUSED ACRS NRN THIRD OF IN/SRN MI AND NW OHIO. ELSEWHERE...SUMMER LIKE PATTERN HOLDS ON. AS A RESULT...ONLY A 30 POP FOR SHOWERS/TSTMS FOR MOST OF THE AREA LOOKS GOOD...EXCEPT THE FAR NORTH...WHERE 40 POP WILL BE EMPLOYED. FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY...COLD FRONT APCHES THE REGION. ETA IS SLOWER WITH THE FRONT THAN THE AVN. H5 AMPLIFIED TROF ASSOCD WITH COLD FRONT LOOK SIMILAR IN BOTH THE AVN/ETA. THUS...EXPERIENCE SAYS THAT TAKING A BLEND OF THE FRONTAL POSITION IS THE BEST FCST. WILL BRING COLD FRONT TO A ZZV TO ILN TO N OF CVG LINE BY 00Z FRIDAY...AND SOUTH OF THE CWFA BY 06Z FRI. WITH CAPES PROGGED BETWEEN 1000 AND 1500 J/KG...LOW LVL CONV ASSOCD WITH FRONT AND FAVORABLE UPR DIV FROM RR QUAD OF 250 MB JET...WILL GO LIKELY POPS IN THE N ON THURSDAY WITH LIKELY IN THE SOUTH FOR THURSDAY EVENING. WILL NOT STRAY MUCH FROM CURRENT MOS GUIDANCE AS IT LOOKS GOOD. LONG RANGE MODELS ARE IN AGREEMENT ON KEEPING FRONTAL BOUNDARY SOUTH OF THE REGION THROUGH THE WEEKEND...SO WILL GO BACK TO A DRY FORECAST. WITH INCREASING HUMIDITY IN A SFC S TO SW FLOW ON MONDAY AND TUESDAY WILL BRING A SMALL CHC FOR SHOWERS/TSTMS...TYPICAL OF A SUMMER TIME PATTERN. .ILN...NONE. HICKMAN/RYAN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
401 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 2002
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0337 PM GREENHILLS OH .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02 HAMILTONPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
434 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 2002
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0432 PM CELINA OH .75 INCH HAIL
06/25/02 MERCERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
438 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 2002
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0432 PM CELINA OH WIND DAMAGE
06/25/02 MERCER TREES DOWNED IN TOWNPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
442 PM EDT TUE JUN 25 2002
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0400 PM COLERAIN OH FLOOD
06/25/02 HAMILTON HIGH WATER OVER ROADWAYSThe Louisville radar (KLVX), 105 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:57 UTC.
4 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Slow moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall across northern Kentucky during the late afternoon and early evening, causing several road closures due to high water.
Several creeks and streams went out of their banks across the southern part of the county. High water was reported on a couple of roads.
Trees were knocked down and a roof was blown off a barn on Slippery Rock Road.
Slow moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall across northern Kentucky during the late afternoon and early evening, causing several road closures due to high water.
Slow moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall across northern Kentucky during the late afternoon and early evening, causing several road closures due to high water.
Slow moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall across northern Kentucky during the late afternoon and early evening, causing several road closures due to high water.
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, June 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: 5304578, 5304577, 5304576, 5304579, 5304580, 5304581.