Thunderstorm Wind, Paulding
- When
- June 28, 7:29 PM EST
- Where
- Paulding County, Antwerp
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 41.183, -84.733
Law enforcement reported trees down near Antwerp.
Damaging Wind in Ohio, June 28, 2003
1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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 Northern Indiana wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 28, 6:30 PM EST, 59 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 6:30 PM EST, 59 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 630 PM EST SAT JUN 28 2003 00GMT TAF DISCUSSION... S/WV MOVG ACRS AREA GENERATING SCATTERED TSTMS UPSTREAM OF FWA/SBN. HAVE CARRIED TEMPO TSTMS THIS EVE. ANOTHER S/WV DROPPING SE INTO THE AREA LATER TONIGHT COULD CAUSE MORE CONVECTION IN THE CWA. ACTIVITY EXPECTED TO BE SCT SO NOT ENUF CONFIDENCE TO ADD TO TAF ATTM. FOR SUNDAY, DRIER AIR XPCD TO BE MOVG INTO THE AREA SO JUST SCT CU THRU MOST OF THE DAY. JT SHORT TERM DISCUSSION... FORECAST CHALLENGES ARE SEVERE STORM POTENTIAL THIS EVENING AND POPS FOR MONDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. WATER VAPOR LOOP INDICATED MID LEVEL SHORTWAVE CROSSING LAKE MICHIGAN AND ILLINOIS. SURFACE ANALYSIS INDICATED COLD FRONT EXTENDING FROM NEAR GRAND RAPIDS MI TO JOLIET IL...THEN ARCING WEST NORTHWEST INTO IOWA. SCATTERED STORMS WERE ALONG FRONTAL BOUNDARY IN AREA OF MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND INSTABILITY. WOLCOTT PROFILER INDICATED 45 KT WINDS AT 10K FT...WITH 88D VAD WIND PROFILER ALSO INDICATING SIMILAR WIND FIELD. WET BULB ZERO HEIGHTS AROUND 9K FT ALSO FAVORABLE FOR HAIL. LIMITING FACTORS APPEAR TO BE UPPER LEVEL DYNAMICS AND CLOUD COVER WHICH LIMITED AIRMASS DESTABILIZATION TODAY. ALL CONSIDERED...WILL GO WITH SCATTERED WORDING FOR TONIGHT AND WILL MENTION SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE. COLD FRONT WILL BE SLOW TO SHIFT SOUTH OUT OF AREA ON SUNDAY...SO WILL CONTINUE WITH A LOW CHANCE POP. MODEL UNCERTAINTY EXISTS WITH SYSTEM SLIDING ACROSS MISSISSIPPI AND OHIO VALLEY MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. GFS LOOKS TOO STRONG WITH THIS SYSTEM...HAVING TRENDED EVEN DEEPER. EVEN ETA SUGGESTS SOME POTENTIAL...THOUGH...FOR SHOWERS AND STORMS TO SLIP INTO SOUTHERN CWFA. THUS...HAVE INTRODUCED A LOW CHANCE POP FOR SOUTHERN TIER COUNTIES. KEPT TUE PERIOD DRY AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS IN. BASED ON CURRENT DEWPOINTS...LAST NIGHTS LOWS AND TRAJECTORIES...FAVOR WARMER FWC AND MET LOWS FOR TONIGHT. A BLEND OF COOLER MAV AND WARMER MET AND FWC HIGHS LOOKS GOOD FOR SUNDAY AND MONDAY. EXTENDED DISCUSSION... FORECAST CHALLENGE CONTINUES TO BE THUNDERSTORM POTENTIAL FOR FRIDAY. DIFFERENCES EXIST WITH GFS...GEM AND ECMWF. ECMWF CONTINUES TO INDICATED A MORE PRONOUNCED 500 MB RIDGE AND FARTHER NORTHWARD SOLUTION OF COLD FRONT THAN GFS. EVEN GFS SOLUTION INDICATES LITTLE UPWARD MOTION AND MARGINAL MOISTURE FIELD. GIVEN UNCERTAINTY AND FOR FORECAST TO FORECAST CONTINUITY...WILL KEEP DRY. .IWX... IN...NONE. MI...NONE. OH...NONE. BARJENBRUCH/SKIP
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 5:25 AM EST, 14 hours 4 minutes before
INZ003>009-012>018-020-022>027-032>034-MIZ077>081-OHZ001-002-004-005- 015-016-024-025-291030- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA 525 AM EST SAT JUN 28 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHERN INDIANA...NORTHWEST OHIO AND SOUTHWEST LOWER MICHIGAN. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL OCCUR AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT. THERE IS A CHANCE THAT A FEW STORMS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING MAY CONTAIN ISOLATED DAMAGING WIND GUSTS OR HAIL TO ONE INCH IN DIAMETER. THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE STORMS IS ALONG AND WEST OF A LOGANSPORT TO WARSAW TO THREE RIVERS LINE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH INDEPENDENCE DAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SUNDAY. HOWEVER...SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME FOR SUNDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES, OR CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT WWW.CRH.NOAA.GOV/IWX
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 28, 3:55 PM EST, 3 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
0355 PM EST SAT JUN 28 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0328 PM 5 ESE VANDALIA MI WIND DAMAGE
06/28/03 CASS LARGE TREES DOWN
WAMSLEYLocal storm report, Jun 28, 3:57 PM EST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
0357 PM EST SAT JUN 28 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0344 PM THREE RIVERS MI WIND DAMAGE
06/28/03 ST. JOSEPH RAILROAD CROSSING ARMS
BLOWN OFF
WAMSLEYLocal storm report, Jun 28, 4:33 PM EST, 2 hours 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
0433 PM EST SAT JUN 28 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0418 PM 1 NE BRONSON MI WIND DAMAGE
06/28/03 BRANCH 12 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN
WAMSLEYLocal storm report, Jun 28, 4:55 PM EST, 2 hours 34 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
0455 PM EST SAT JUN 28 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM 1 NW LITCHFIELD MI WIND DAMAGE
06/28/03 HILLSDALE 2 TREES DOWN ACROSS ROAD
WAMSLEYLocal storm report, Jun 28, 4:56 PM EST, 2 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
0456 PM EST SAT JUN 28 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0435 PM 1 E LITCHFIELD MI WIND DAMAGE
06/28/03 HILLSDALE TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
WAMSLEYLocal storm report, Jun 28, 7:23 PM EST, 6 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORTHERN INDIANA
0723 PM EST SAT JUN 28 2003
TIME(EST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0703 PM FORT WAYNE IN WIND DAMAGE
06/28/03 ALLEN TREES REPORTED DOWN
WAMSLEYThe radar
The Northern Indiana radar (KIWX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:27 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood and Hail in Kansas, June 28 to 29, 2003
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Kansas, June 28, 2003
- Hail in Minnesota, June 28, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 28, 2003
- Hail in Illinois, June 28, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 28, 2003
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 28, 2003
- Damaging Winds in Michigan, June 28, 2003
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 28, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Colorado, June 28, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 28, 2003
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 28, 2003
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: 5362940.