1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 May 25, 2:53 PM EST, 3 hours 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 353 PM EDT TUE MAY 25 2004 .SHORT TERM... STARTING WITH TONIGHT...HAVE LOWERED POPS IN NW FCST AREA TO NOTHING BETWEEN 6 AND 12Z AS NW FLOW AND DOWNWARD MOTION PREVAILS DURING THIS TIME FRAME. WILL EXPECT TO HAVE A FEW UPDATES THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING TO MELD INCOMING PRECIP TO THE FCST. WILL PLAY THESE UPDATES AS NEEDED. GENERALLY WENT WITH THE ETA SOUTION OVERNIGHT AS FRONT REMAINS S OF FCST AREA WITH SOME NRN EXTENT OF PRECIP SHIELD REACHING THE KY COUNTIES AND IMMEDIATE OHRIVER REGION. AS THE FRONT WASHES OUT OVER THE SRN OH VLY LATER TOMORROW...HAVE KEPT LIKELY POPS IN THE FAR SE FCST AREA AND DROPPED THEM TO LOW CHANCE OVERNIGHT S OF THE RIVER. BELIEVE THAT ANY PRECIP DURING THIS TIME FRAME WILL NOT SEE THE CONVECTION NECESSARY FOR THUNDER...BUT UNCERTAINTY TELLS ME TO NOT GET FANCY AND JUST KEEP ALL PRECIP FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS AS THUNDER. THE CHANCE OF PRECIP DROPS OFF THURS AFTERNOON AS THE HIGH SLIDES E OF FCST AREA AND MODELS ARE SHOWING SOME PRECIP IN THE RETURN FLOW AHEAD OF NEXT COLD FRONT MOVING IN FROM THE NW. DONT BELIEVE THAT THIS IS REASONABLE WITHOUT THE TRIGGER OF THE FROPA...SO HELD OFF THE POPS UNTIL THE LATE EVENING PERIOD AND INCREASED TO HIGH CHANCE BY FRIDAY MORNING. HEAVY PRECIP MAY POSE SOME PROBLEMS WED/WED NIGHT...ESP IN KY. WILL NOT ISSUE FFA AS ANY N OR S CHANGE IN FRONTAL PLACEMENT FROM MODELS WILL DRAMATICALLY CHANGE AXIS OF MOST RAINFALL. ON TEMPS...NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS FCST...HAVE RAISED OVERNIGHT LOWS IN THE NE 1/2 OF FCST AREA ON THURS NIGHT AS RETURN FLOW HELPS BRING BACK MOISTURE AND LESS DIURNAL RANGE IN TEMPS. .EXTENDED... AS HPC HAS STATED...00Z/06Z GFS AND OTHER LONG RANGE MODELS IN DECENT AGREEMENT FOR THE EXTENDED FCST...SO HAVE FOLLOWED CLOSELY. ON FRIDAY...A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE NW. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ATTM...HAVE PCPN ENDING BY AFTN. SFC HIGH PRES IS THEN EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE LOWER GREAT LAKES AND OHIO VLY BY EVENING...KEEPING DRY CONDITIONS THROUGH SATURDAY AFTN. NEXT WX MAKER WILL BE A WARM FRONT PIVOTING FROM THE SW SATURDAY NIGHT...THEN ACRS THE AREA DURING THE FIRST PART OF SUNDAY. HAVE GONE 40 POPS ALL LOCATIONS SOMETIME DURING THIS PERIOD. ONCE WARM FRONT LIFTS NORTH...REGION WILL BE IN WARM SECTOR...AND THUS WILL EMPLOY PARTLY CLOUDY/DRY CONDITIONS BY AFTN. NEXT SIGNIFICANT SYSTEM IS POISED TO MOVE INTO THE REGION BY TUESDAY MORNING. LONG RANGE MODELS SHOW A VIGOROUS UPR LVL LOW AND ASSOCD COLD FRONT TO MOVE FROM INTERMOUNTAIN WEST INTO THE GREAT LAKES AND OHIO VLY. WILL GRADUALLY INTRODUCE CHCS FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ON MONDAY AS SYSTEM APCHS...CULMINATING WITH THE HIGHEST POPS ON TUESDAY. HPC/MEX TEMPS WERE DECENT AND USED MOSTLY...EXCEPT FOR A FEW TWEAKS ON SUNDAY...SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY (WENT WARMER). IF LONG RANGE PATTERN HOLDS UP...TEMPS BY WEDNESDAY COULD BE BELOW NORMAL WITH POST FRONTAL CLOUDS AND SHOWERS ASSOCIATED WITH UPR LVL LOW. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. KY...NONE. OH...NONE. && FRANKS/HICKMAN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 414 AM EDT TUE MAY 25 2004 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-251013- ADAMS OH-AUGLAIZE OH-BOONE KY-BRACKEN KY-BROWN OH-BUTLER OH- CAMPBELL KY-CARROLL KY-CHAMPAIGN OH-CLARK OH-CLERMONT OH-CLINTON OH- DARKE OH-DEARBORN IN-DELAWARE OH-FAIRFIELD OH-FAYETTE OH-FAYETTE IN- FRANKLIN OH-FRANKLIN IN-GALLATIN KY-GRANT KY-GREENE OH-HAMILTON OH- HARDIN OH-HIGHLAND OH-HOCKING OH-KENTON KY-LEWIS KY-LICKING OH- LOGAN OH-MADISON OH-MASON KY-MERCER OH-MIAMI OH-MONTGOMERY OH- OHIO IN-OWEN KY-PENDLETON KY-PICKAWAY OH-PIKE OH-PREBLE OH-RIPLEY IN- ROBERTSON KY-ROSS OH-SCIOTO OH-SHELBY OH-SWITZERLAND IN-UNION OH- UNION IN-WARREN OH-WAYNE IN- 414 AM EDT TUE MAY 25 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY THUNDERSTORMS WILL TRACK ACROSS THE REGION THIS MORNING. SOME OF THE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG DAMAGING STRAIGHT LINE WINDS. ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT WHEN ADDITIONAL SEVERE WEATHER WILL BE POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS FROM TIME TO TIME. A FEW OF THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TODAY.
The Louisville radar (KLVX), 115 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:01 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
A tree and a power pole were knocked down.
Thunderstorms moving across Owen County produced up to two inches of rain during the evening. Several roads across the southern part of the county were flooded.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5400726, 5400727.