1 flood, 1 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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 12, 3:48 AM EST, 12 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 348 AM EST WED NOV 12 2003 .DISCUSSION... THERE ARE SHOWERS WITH SOME LIGHTNING MAINLY IN THE SOUTH THIS MORNING IN ADVANCE OF AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT. TEMPERATURES WILL REACH THE UPPER 60S TO LOW 70S TODAY...AS WARM MOIST AIR ADVECTS IN FROM THE SW...AND THE CLOUDS COULD BREAK UP A BIT LATER THIS MORNING INTO THE AFTERNOON. INSTABILITY WILL BE MODERATE AS CAPES ARE PROGGED TO BE 600-800 J/KG. HOWEVER...THE LOW LEVEL CAPES ARE IMPRESSIVE...SRH(S) ARE 200-300 M2/S2...LI(S) ARE -1 C TO -3 C AND THERE IS GOOD DIFFLUENCE ALOFT. ANY THUNDERSTORM TODAY COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS AND ISOLATED ROTATORS ARE POSSIBLE. HAVE ISSUED AN SPS AS THE SPC HAS PUT MOST OF THE AREA IN MODERATE RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER TODAY. THE FRONT WILL PASS ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. WINDS AT 925 MB ARE PROGGED UP T0 45 KTS ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT BEHIND THE FRONT. HAVE ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT WITH 25 TO 35 MPH WINDS AND GUSTS OF 40-45 KTS. THERE COULD BE A FEW SNOW SHOWERS THURSDAY IN THE NORTH WITH THE WRAP AROUND FLOW. NEW GUIDANCE AND CORRELATED LOW LEVEL THICKNESSES HAVE COME IN LOWER FOR THURSDAY AND FRIDAY AND HAVE LOWERED TEMPS A BIT IN RESPONSE. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT. KY...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT. OH...WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT. &&
INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-111200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 500 AM EST TUE NOV 11 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY A FEW SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON...PRIMARILY ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-71. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 116 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:44 UTC.
1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy rain during the early morning hours produced road flooding across eastern Hocking County.
A barn was destroyed and numerous trees were downed along North Old State Road.
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, November 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: 5330619, 5330618.