2 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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NWS Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 3, 1:40 PM EST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 240 PM EDT TUE SEP 3 2002 SFC ANALYSIS AT 18Z DEPICTED TWO FEATURES. ONE WAS A PREFRONTAL TROF EXTENDING FROM THE LAKE ONTARIO SHORELINE SW ALONG THE LAKE ERIE SHORELINE INTO N CNTRL OHIO. THE COLD FRONT WAS NOT TOO FAR BEHIND...EXTENDING FROM SRN ONTARIO...NW OHIO INTO N CNTRL IN...THEN INTO S CNTRL IL. BOTH THE PREFRONTAL TROF AND COLD FRONT WERE SHOWING SCATTERED CONVECTION FROM NRN OHIO INTO NW PA AND WRN NY. WILL CONTINUE TO WATCH SATELLITE AND RADAR TRENDS FOR EXPECTED CONVECTION TO IGNITE LATE THIS AFTN AND EVENING ACRS OUR CWFA. ETA MODEL INITIALIZED FRONTAL POSITION WELL...AND WILL USE ITS MORE DETAILED SKILL TO FORECAST THE FRONTAL POSITION THRU THE CWFA TONIGHT. COLD FRONT SHOULD BE THROUGH OUR FAR NW AREA BY 6 OR 7 PM EDT...FROM BMG TO DAY TO CAK TO YNG AROUND 8 PM EDT...FROM HNB TO ILN TO LHQ BY 11 PM EDT AND FROM PAH TO LEX TO HTS BY 5 AM EDT. AS A RESULT...A CHC OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EARLY NW AND INTO THE EARLY MORNING SE STILL LOOKS GOOD. AFTER FRONTAL PASSAGE...SKIES WILL CLEAR AND DEWPOINTS WILL DROP. ON WEDNESDAY...IT SHOULD BE A MAINLY SUNNY DAY. A FEW AFTN CU MAY FORM OVER THE FAR SE CWFA IN THE WAKE OF THE FRONT. SFC HIGH PRESSURE WILL SLOWLY MOVE ACRS THE GREAT LAKES REGION INTO THE MID ATLANTIC BY SATURDAY MORNING. AT THIS TIME...MODELS SHOW ONLY A WEAK S/WV APCHING THE OHIO VLY BY LATE FRIDAY. THE MEAN RH FIELDS ARE VERY DRY...SO AM NOT ANTICIPATING ANY WEATHER. LONG RANGE PROGS CONT TO SHOW A BLOCK TYPE PATTERN SETTING UP INTO EARLY NEXT WEAK WITH A DOMINANT UPR HIGH OVER THE GREAT LAKES AND A WEAK INVERTED UPR TROF OVER THE LOWER MS VLY. 850 MB TEMPS ARE FCST TO BE WARM...RANGING FROM 16 C TO 18 FROM SAT THRU TUES. WITH NO WX EXPECTED...AT LEAST AT THIS TIME...WILL FCST HIGHS NEAR 90 DEGREES EACH DAY. IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THE WARMEST TEMPS MAY BE IN OUR NW CWFA. AS A RESULT...HAVE DEVIATED AWAY FROM THE MEX GUIDANCE VALUES WHICH ARE TRENDING TOWARD THE CLIMATOLOGICAL NORMAL HIGHS OF 79 TO 82 FOR THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. .ILN...NONE. HICKMAN
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 140 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:39 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Numerous trees were downed across the northern part of the county.
Large limbs and powerlines were knocked down.
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, September 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: 5316972, 5316973.