1 flood, 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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 27, 1:40 AM EST, 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 240 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003 ZNS WL BE ISSUED SHORTLY AND WL INCLUDE SVR TSTM WATCH # 898 UNTIL 8 AM EDT. TSTMS CONTG AHD OF FNT ERY THIS MRNG. AREA STG TSTMS MOVG SE THRU SERN PTN CWA ERY THIS MRNG FROM S CLE TO N CAK TO ARND YNG. MORE SCT TSTMS WRN PTN AND BACK CLOSER TO FNT OVER LOWER MI. WL KP CHC/SCT TSTMS GOING ENTIRE CWA THIS MRNG...AND LNGRG OVER SRN AREAS THIS AFTN. CONT DRY FCST TNGT AND THU BRNGG CHC BACK TO WRN AREAS THU NITE AS CURRENT FCST HAS GOING. CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE.
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-261245- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 648 AM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS TODAY AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY OR TONIGHT.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
916 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0810 PM MT VERNON OH 60 MPH TSTM WIND GUST
08/26/03 KNOX MEASURED
0810 PM MT VERNON OH WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 KNOX SHINGLES OFF ROOF AND STOP
LIGHTS DOWN
BMOHZ003-006>010-017>022-027>033-036>038-047-270230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 928 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH NUMBER 895 HAS BEEN CANCELLED... THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTHEAST OF THE REGION THIS EVENING. THEREFORE...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH THAT WAS ISSUED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LOMBARDY
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
1019 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0805 PM COUNTYWIDE OH WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 KNOX OVER 100 TREES KNOCKED
DOWN ACROSS COUNTY AND SOME
MAJOR HIGHWAYS BLOCKED.
0815 PM STILLWELL OH WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 HOLMES ONE TREE DOWN.
0815 PM KILLBUCK OH WIND DAMAGE
08/26/03 HOLMES ONE TREE DOWN.
FMKPAZ001>003-270415- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1110 PM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003 STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH MUCH OF EXTREME NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND 2 AM. AT 1110 PM EDT DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING LAKE ERIE NORTH OF ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL REACH THE ERIE COUNTY SHORELINE AROUND MIDNIGHT AND CONTINUE MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD HAVE HEAVY RAINFALL...HAIL AND WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. SOME PONDING OF WATER ON ROADS MAY OCCUR. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR WARNINGS. KIELTYKA
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND,OH
1212 AM EDT WED AUG 27 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
1140 PM AVON LAKE OH .75 INCH HAIL
08/26/03 LORAIN
FMKThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms dumped one to three inches of rain on much of Portage County causing widespread urban and lowland flooding. Several small streams and creeks left their banks forcing the closure of a couple roads in the southern portion of the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, August 2003
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: 5332813.