1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 May 28, 8:59 AM EST, 5 hours 6 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 959 AM EDT TUE MAY 28 2002 LTST SFC ANALYSIS SHWS WEAK BOUNDARY ORIENTED E-W ACRS NRN OH. BAGGY TROF OVR THE PLNS WITH WK S/WVS TRACKING INTO OH VLY. ONE WK S/WV OVR IN IS FCST TO TRACK INTO OH TDA. SCTD TSTMS HV DEVLPD AHD OF THIS FEATURE ACRS THE NRN MIAMI VLY INVOF THE FNTL BOUNDARY. VIS SATL IMGRY SHWS CONVECTIVE OUTFLOW BOUNDARY FM NR CMH TO JUST S OF DAY INTO E CNTRL IN. FCST SOUNDINGS INDICATE NO CAP TDA WITH MODERATE INSTBY BTWN 1200-1600 J/KG THIS AFTN. FIELD OF UPR DIV WL ALSO HELP SUPP CONTD SHWR/TSTM DVLPMNT TDA. STORM MOVEMENT FM THE SOUTHWEST ARND 10KTS WITH PROPAGATION VECTOR FROM THE NE. THIS SHUD RESULT IN SOME BACKBUILDING WITH LCL HVY RAIN PSBL. WL ONLY MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO FCST POPS AND SKY CONDITIONS TDA. ENERGY BLOCK METHOD YIELDS A HI NR 80. CURR FCST TEMPS LOOK GOOD. .ILN...NONE. AR
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 71 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:05 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees were knocked down across the county.
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