2 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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 3:30 AM EST, 9 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 430 AM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 MSTLY CLR SKIES ATTM WL FILL IN QUICKLY THIS MRNG AS THE CDFNT APCHS. RUC10 INDICATES A PREFRNTL LINE OF ACTIVTY MOVING THRU QUICKLY FOLLOWED BY THE CDFNT. SPC HAS OHIO UNDER A SLGT RISK. EARLIER TIMING OF SYS HAS SLOWED A LTL AND WL CONT THE CHC OF TSTMS INTO THE EVENG OVR THE ERN PTN OF THE CWA. DRY SLOTTING BHND FNT INTO THE WRN CNTIES LATE THIS AFTN. BUT THEN WRPARND MSTR ON THE BACKSIDE OF LOW MAY BRING A LTL SCT ACTIVCTY OVRNGT. BACKED OFF ON PCPN ON MON AS RDG BLDS IN FRM THE SW AND DRIER AMS. HOWEVER WI A SECONDARY TROUGH SWINGG THRU MON MRNG COULD SET OFF A FEW SCT SHRA. BUT MON AFTN INTO MON NITE WL BE QUIET & FAIR. ANOTHER CDFNT TO SWING THRU TUE AND CONT THE CHC FOR TSTMS. BHND THE FNT HI PRES BLDS IN, AND AS A RESULT MAY IMPRIVED THE MIDWEEK PTNM OF THE FCST & REMOVED THE CHC FOR SHRA UNTL FRI. .CLE... OH...NONE. PA...NONE.
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-081115- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 513 AM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THERE IS A RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION AND COULD PRODUCE STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE TUESDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
OHZ003-006>008-017-018-081530- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 928 AM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE BEGINNING TO MOVE INTO NORTHWEST OHIO. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTEND FROM JACKSON MICHIGAN SOUTH TO FORT WAYNE INDIANA AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN ERIE AND HURON COUNTIES BY 1130 AM. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. WSF
OHZ007>009-017>019-081715- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 1221 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT... A LINE OF STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE LINE WILL MOVE THROUGH THE COUNTIES OF SANDUSKY...SENECA... ERIE...AND HURON AND INTO LORAIN COUNTY BY 145 PM. THESE THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE STRONG WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. WSF
OHZ003-006>010-017>019-081830- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 127 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM EDT... RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM CANADA ACROSS LAKE ERIE INTO INDIANA. THIS LINE WAS MOVING EAST AT AROUND 20 MPH. WHILE THERE HAS BEEN NO REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER AT THIS TIME...THESE STORMS STILL COULD PRODUCE WIND GUST TO 35 MPH...SMALL HAIL AND HEAVY RAIN AS THEY MOVE EAST. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. WSF
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 141 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:13 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds downed a few trees seven miles west of Marion.
Thunderstorm wind gusts of 35 to 40 mph blew down two large tents on the west side of Cleveland. Three people inside were injured when the tents collapsed. One person was hospitalized. A peak wind gust of 36 mph was measured at nearby Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
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, June 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: 5364289, 5364290.