4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 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 26, 9:47 AM EST, 3 hours 28 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1047 AM EDT WED JUN 26 2002 CURRENT SFC ANALYSIS INDCG LO PRES NORTH OF LK SUPERIOR WITH TRAILING COLD FRONT EXTNDG ACRS WESTERN WISCONSIN INTO CENTRAL IOWA. TSTMS CONTINUED FROM W OF CHI TO DSM...WITH BNDRY AHEAD OF THESE STORMS HELPING TO GENERATE NEW STORMS IN NORTHERN INDIANA. 12Z ETA SHOWING S/WV AND STRETCHED OUT ENHANCED VORT ACRS LOWER MI...N INDIANA WHERE STORMS ARE CURRENTLY FORMING. SFC AND LO LVL CONVERGENCE IS WEAK AT BEST ACRS THE NORTH AS THE VORT LOBE PUSHES EAST ACRS LK ERIE INTO THIS AFTN. EXPECT STORMS WILL BE MORE WDLY SCT THIS AFTN...WITH BEST CHC ACRS W CNTRL OH. WL KEEP 40 POPS ACRS THE NORTHERN ZONES BASED ON RADAR TRENDS AND MODEL DATA. WL DROP TO 30 POPS ACRS CVG AND PMH ZONES WITH LACK OF LO LVL FORCING THROUGHOUT AFTN. TEMPS THIS MRNG RUNNING ABOUT 5-7 DEGREES BEHIND SAME TIME YSTRDY BUT WITH MORE SUN EXPECTED ACRS MOST OF CWA...WILL APPRCH TUES HIGHS. WITH THIS IN MIND...WL BUMP UP AFTN TEMPS IN DAYTON AND CVG GROUPS AS LO LVL THICKNESS SUPPORTING 87-89 DEGREES THIS AFTN. WL LEAVE TEMPS ALONE IN W CNTRL GROUP WHERE CLOUDS SHOULD BE MORE PREVALENT. HVY RAIN AGAIN TO BE PRIMARY CONCERN WITH TSTMS THIS AFTN (PWATS 1.6-1.8 IN)...ALTHOUGH CANNOT RULE OUT AN ISOLD SVR. FEW SVR DVLPD WITH HAIL/DMG WINDS YSTRDY ALONG MERGING CELLS/BNDRYS. WL MONITOR AS WB ZERO IS MARGINAL THIS AFTN. 12Z ILN SNDG SHOWING FASTER TSTM MOTION THAN LAST FEW DAYS AS WELL. UPDATE OUT BY 11 AM. .ILN...NONE. RYAN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
1027 AM EDT WED JUN 26 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0730 PM WILLIAMSTOWN KY FLOOD
06/25/02 GRANT WATER COVERING SEVERAL
ROADS SOUTH OF WILLIAMSTOWN
0730 PM 5 N NEW LIBERTY KY FLOOD
06/25/02 OWEN WATER COVERING OLD OWENTON
ROAD
RLBPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON, OH
1034 AM EDT WED JUN 26 2002
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0350 PM HIGHLAND OH FLOOD
06/25/02 HIGHLAND WATER COVERING ROADWAYS
RLBThe Cincinnati radar (KILN), 7 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:15 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A barn was demolished on State Route 350 between Farmers Road and State Route 73.
Several large trees were blown down.
Trees up to one foot in diameter and a few power poles were blown down near the intersection of Interstate 71 and North Broadway.
Trees and power lines were kncked down in the city.
A slow moving thunderstorm soaked the Middletown area, with high water reported on several roads in town. The basement of a church in town was flooded from the storm.
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, 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: 5304586, 5304585, 5304584, 5304582, 5304583, 5304587.