2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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 Oct 14, 2:45 PM EST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 345 PM EDT TUE OCT 14 2003 WILL GO WITH AN ADVISORY FOR WINDS TONIGHT. WINDS 50 TO 64 KTS 2K FEET UP OFF THE ILN RADAR AND WITH LOW MOVING NE OF THE AREA AND DEEPENING THRU THE NIGHT WINDS WILL CONTINUE THRU THE NIGHT AND SHOULD MIX DOWN ON COLD ADVN BEHIND LOW. WILL CONT ADVSRT THRU THE NIGHT MOST AREAS AND THRU WEDNESDAY MORNING NERN OHIO AND NWRN PA. AS FOR PCPN WL GO WITH CAT POPS THRU THE EVG IN THE WEST AND ALL NIGHT ELSEWHERE. DRYG MOVING IN FROM THE WEST SHOULD BRING RAIN TO AN END AFTER MIDNIGHT WEST. WL ALSO GO WITH A CHC OF THUNDER BUT SHOULD BE ISOLATED AT BEST. FOR WED WILL CONT WITH WINDY ALL AREAS AND AN ADVSRY FOR THE NE CWA LAKESHORE. AMPLE DRYG BEHIND THE SYSTEM SHOULD ALOW FOR SOME SS AS SEEN TO OUR WEST TDA. WL GO CLOSE TO GUIDANCE TEMPS FOR NOW. ZONES OUT SO WL CUT THIS SHORT. FCSTID = 13 .CLE... OH...WIND ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES OHZ003...OHZ006>011... OHZ017>023...OHZ027>033...OHZ036>038...OHZ047. WIND ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES OHZ012>014...OHZ089. PA...WIND ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR ZONES PAZ001>003. KING
OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-141200- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 555 AM EDT OCT 14 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY. HIGH WINDS ARE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. DEEP LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE NORTHEAST THROUGH THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY TONIGHT. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... STRONG GUSTY WINDS ARE STILL POSSIBLE ON WEDNESDAY OVER EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED FOR TODAY.
PAZ001>003-142230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 547 PM EDT TUE OCT 14 2003 THNDERSTORMS WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS OF MORE THAN INCH PER HOUR...GUSTY WINDS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST OVER ERIE AND CRAWFORD COUNTIES THROUGH 7PM. THE STRONGEST LINE OF STORMS AT 5:45 PM WAS EAST OF ERIE...EDINBORO...MEADVILLE LINE. ANOTHER LINE WAS FROM NEAR ASHTABULA TO YOUNGSTOWN LINE AND WAS MOVING EAST. THE HEAVY RAINS WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS. WINDS WILL BE GUSTING FROM 30 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR. KEEP ALERT CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS THIS EVENING AND FLOODING OF ROADWAYS. THOMPSON
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 134 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:29 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds destroyed a railroad crossing gate. A few large tree limbs were also downed.
A small tornado touched down in a soybean field north of Oak Harbor near the intersection of State Route 19 and West Genzman Road. The tornado was only on the ground for a couple of hundred feet. There was some crop damage in the field.
Thunderstorm winds downed one tree and one large limb in Chardon Township.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2003Every state in 2003This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Ohio, 2003Warnings in Ohio, October 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: 5371119, 5371120, 5371121.