1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Aug 4, 1:30 PM EST, 5 hours 30 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 230 PM EDT SUN AUG 4 2002 MAJOR PATTERN CHANGE TO TAKE PLACE WITH UPR TROF OVR HUDSON/S BAY DIGGING SE THRU ERN GRTLKS AND NE US. SIGNIFICANT COOL DOWN TO TAK PLACE WITH CDFNT CURRENTLY EXTENDING FROM THE WRN GRTLKS AND CNTRL PLNS TO DROP THRU CWA MON AFTN. UPR RDG AXIS IN PLACE OVR THE OH VLY WL BLD OVR THE PLNS PLACING THE CWA IN NW FLO WITH SFC HI PRES BLDG S FM CAN OFFERING COOL AND MUCH LESS HUMID CONDITIONS THRU MUCH OF THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK. IN SHORT TERM....XPCT AN INCRS IN HI AND MID LVL CLDS MAINLY ACRS THE N TNGT CLOSER TO FNTL BNDRY. ISOLD TO SCTD SHWRS AND TSTMS HAVE DVLPD IN AXIS OF FAVORABLE SFC MSTR CONVERGENCE IN AREA OF WK UPR SUPP. WL LKLY MENT A CHC OF EVE SHWRS/TSTMS. WL MONITOR LATES RADAR TRENDS TO SEE IF THIS WL BE REQUIRED IN ALL ZONES. CLDS AND HI DWPTS SHUD KEEP TEMPS A LTL WRMR THAN FWC GUID CLOSER TO MAV NUMBERS. XPCT TO SEE STORMS DVLP DURG LATE MORNING/MIDDAY TIME FRAMEB MOIST MOD UNSTBL AMS. PWS/ ARE XPCTD TO BE NR 2 INCHES WITH SBCAPES BTWN 2000-2500 J/KG. DAMAGING WINDS WL BE MAIN THREAT MON AFTN WITH WBZ HGTS RUNNING HI FOR LARGE HAIL AT SFC. BEST DYNAMICS PASS THRU THE ERN GRTLKS BUT ISOLD SVR WL BE PSBL. WL INCRS POPS TO 50 PERCENT ACRS ENTIRE REGION. NEXT FCST PROBLEM REVOLVES ARND HEAT HEADLINES. INCRS IN CLDS AND XPCTD TSTMS WL KEEP TEMPS DOWN FROM TDA/S VALUES. MET GUID APPEARS TOO WARM...GENERALLY FAVOR FWC/MAV NUMBERS. BASED ON THIS SOLN...XPCT HEAT INDICES TO BE NEAR 100 ACRS THE FAR S ON MON. THIS IS THE THRESHOLD OF LOCAL HEADLINE CRITERIA. THEREFORE... WL CONT HEAT ADVSRY FOR THE S WITH WARNING FOR HAMILTON COUNTY. WL DROP HEADLINE FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY WITH HI/S ON MON ONLY XPCTD TO BE IN THE UPR 80S. WL CONT A LO POP CHC TSTMS VRY ERLY MON EVE ACRS THE FAR S. XPCT CLRG TO TAKE PLACE IN THE WAKE OF THE FNT MON NGT. HAVE STAYED CLOSE TO GUID TEMPS WITH LOWS. SFC HI PRES BLDS SWRD INTO OH VLY ON TUE. LO LVL CAA WL BE OBSERVED WITH LO LVL NERLY FLO. CONCEPTUAL MODEL SUGGS COLD AIR CU TO DVLP AND FCST SOUNDINGS ALSO POINTS THIS WAY. ATTM WL GO WITH MOSTLY SUNNY SKY COND FCST. H8 TEMPS/THICKNESS AND ENERGY BLOCK TECHNIQUES ALL SUGG TEMPS LTL COOLER THAN FWC CLOSER TO MAV GUID WITH TUE/S HI/S. .ILN... IN...HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY THROUGH MONDAY FOR ZONES INZ066... INZ073>075...INZ080. KY...HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY THROUGH MONDAY FOR ZONES KYZ089>100. OH...EXCESSIVE HEAT WARNING FOR TODAY THROUGH MONDAY FOR HAMILTON COUNTY...OHZ077. HEAT ADVISORY FOR TODAY THROUGH MONDAY FOR ZONES OHZ070>073...OHZ078>082...OHZ088. RANDALL
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 63 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:05 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Several buildings at the Butler County Regional Airport sustained structural and roof damage. A classic plane was also destroyed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, August 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: 5315045.