Thunderstorm Wind, Summit
- When
- August 16, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Summit County, Richfield
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.233, -81.633
Thunderstorm winds downed five or six trees.
Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 16, 2002
5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $44,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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 Aug 16, 1:55 PM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 16, 1:55 PM EST, 5 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 255 PM EDT FRI AUG 16 2002 FOR SHORT TERM FORECAST WILL GO LIKELY POPS E OF THUNDERSTORMS...THEN JUST A CHANCE ACROSS THE BOARD FOR TONIGHT. VORT MAX SWINGS ACROSS OHIO VALLEY SAT SO WENT LIKELY S AND SCATTERED NORTH AND WEST. ALTHOUGH MODELS DISAGREE ON TIMING FRONT MOVES THROUGH LATE SAT INTO SUNDAY...LEANED TOWARD SLOWER ETA SOLUTION. AS FAR AS TEMPS...STAYED CLOSE TO MOS. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. DJB
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 28 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:57 UTC.
Event by event
5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Medina
- When
- August 16, 2:00 PM EST
- Where
- Medina County, Medina
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.133, -81.867
Thunderstorm winds downed a large tree limb southeast of Medina and a tree in Wadsworth.
Thunderstorm Wind, Portage
- When
- August 16, 2:40 PM EST
- Where
- Portage County, Randolph
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- FIRE DEPT/RESCUE SQUAD
- Coordinates
- 41.033, -81.250
Thunderstorm winds downed a tree and one large limb.
Hail, Geauga
- When
- August 16, 2:45 PM EST
- Where
- Geauga County, Chesterland
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 41.517, -81.333
Nickel size hail was observed.
Hail, Cuyahoga
- When
- August 16, 4:50 PM EST
- Where
- Cuyahoga County, Parma
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.400, -81.717
Dime size hail was observed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Ashland
- When
- August 16, 5:35 PM EST
- Where
- Ashland County, Nova
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.033, -82.317
Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees near Nova and Sullivan.
Thunderstorm Wind, Medina
- When
- August 16, 5:55 PM EST
- Where
- Medina County, Medina
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.133, -81.867
Thunderstorm winds downed several trees in Medina and Montville Township.
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in Washington, August 16, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, August 16, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 16, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, August 16 to 17, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, August 16 to 17, 2002
- Hail in Nebraska, August 16, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in New York, August 16, 2002
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in New Hampshire, August 16, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, August 16, 2002
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 16, 2002
- Wildfire in Washington, August 16 to 20, 2002
- Lightning Strike in New York, August 16, 2002
More
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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: 5313572, 5313578, 5313577, 5313576, 5313573, 5313574, 5313575.