4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 Jun 1, 2:20 PM EST, 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 320 PM EDT JUN 1 2004 .DISCUSSION... S/WV MOVNG INTO INDIANA ATTM WITH TSTMS BECOMING MORE ROBUST BTWN KCVG AND KSDF. TSTM THAT JUST WENT THRU KCVG PRODUCED 38 KT GUST AND LKLY SOME SMALL HAIL. MORE CONVECTION BEGINNING TO DVLP TO NORTH OF I-70 BTWN KIND AND KDAY ALONG SFC TROF/CONFLUENCE BNDRY. SHORT TERM FCST WILL FOCUS ON CHANCE FOR TSTMS FOR LATE AFTN/EVNG. SERIES OF S/WVS VERY EVIDENT ON WATER VAPOR SAT WILL ROTATE THRU FCST AREA OVER NEXT 6-8 HOURS. MODEL SOUNDINGS SUPPORTING SRH VALUES ABV 200 M2/S2 AND 0-6 KM SHEAR VALUES APPCHG 40 KTS. SHEAR WILL HELP TO SUSTAIN TSTMS AND ALLOW FOR A COUPLE OF SVR STORMS. SPC HAS PLACED MUCH OF FCST AREA IN SLGT RISK FOR SVR STORMS. HAIL AND WIND DMG BOTH POSSIBLE...WITH WBZERO LEVELS BTWN 7-8KFT (PLENTY COLD AIR ALOFT) AND DELTA THETA-E VALUES AROUND 15K. GREATEST RISK FOR CONVECTION WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTH OF I-70...WITH ACTIVITY SHIFTING EAST INTO EVNG. CIN VALUES WILL INCREASE TO NEAR 100 J/KG BY LATE EVNG AND WITH LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING...EXPECT TSTMS WILL WEAKEN BY 04Z. GENERALLY DRY FOR REMAINDER OF NIGHT AS WEAK NVA DVLPS BEHIND EVNG S/WVS. FRNTL BNDRY ALONG ELONGATED UPR TROF WILL SWING SOUTH INTO FCST AREA DURING THE DAY WED. MORE CLOUDS EXPECTED AND DECENT LO LVL CONV SUGGEST GOOD CHANCE FOR SHRA. WEAK INSTABILITY DVLPG DURING AFTN SHOULD ALLOW FOR FEW TSTMS...BUT AT THIS POINT SVR POTENTIAL LOOKS MINIMAL TO NIL. BOTH ETA/GFS SWINGING UPR TROF AXIS THRU REGION LITTLE FASTER THAN PREV RUNS WED EVNG. FRNTL BNDRY/UPR TROF AXIS EAST OF FCST AREA BY 06Z THURS...WITH SFC HI PRES BUILDING INTO REGION. DRY WX FOR THURS/FRI AS HI PRES MOVES ACRS OH VLY/LWR GRT LKS AND UPR LVL RIDGING DVLPS. TEMPS...MAV GUID LOOKED GOOD AND FOLLOWED THRU THURS NIGHT. WITH SFC HI PROGGED TO BE CENTERED OVER REGION THURS NIGHT...CLEAR SKIES AND LGT WINDS WILL ALLOW FOR COOL NIGHT. COULD SEE A FEW LOCATIONS DROP INTO U40S ACRS NRN FCST AREA. EXTENDED...AS SFC HI SHIFTS EAST OF FCST AREA FRI...SW RETURN FLO WILL BRING WARMER AND MORE HUMID WEATHER BACK INTO OH VLY. FRNTL BNDRY WILL APPCH FCST AREA SAT NIGHT/SUN WITH NEXT CHANCE OF TSTMS && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... IN...NONE. KY...NONE. OH...NONE. && RYAN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 500 AM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-010900- 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- 500 AM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN CONTINUE INTO TONIGHT. A FEW OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER TODAY.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1028 AM EDT TUE JUN 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0600 PM TSTM WND DMG 2 S FELICITY 38.81N 84.10W
05/30/2004 CLERMONT OH DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
2 TREES DOWN ALONG SR 322
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RLGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1032 AM EDT TUE JUN 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0630 PM TSTM WND DMG 1 N MOUNT ORAB 39.04N 83.92W
05/30/2004 BROWN OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
SEVERAL TREES AND POWERLINES DOWN
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RLGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1049 AM EDT TUE JUN 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1100 PM DENSE FOG CELINA 40.55N 84.57W
05/30/2004 MERCER OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND LARGE LIMBS DOWN
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RLGPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT...CORRECTED EVENT TYPE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1052 AM EDT TUE JUN 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1100 PM TSTM WND DMG CELINA 40.55N 84.57W
05/30/2004 MERCER OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND LARGE LIMBS DOWN
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RLGINZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-012200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1105 AM EDT TUE JUN 1 2004 ...THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING... THE ATMOSPHERE ACROSS THE REGION WILL BECOME UNSTABLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON AS A COLD FRONT APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. AS IT DOES...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP BETWEEN 3 PM EDT AND 6 PM EDT. THE POSSIBILITY EXISTS THAT SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BECOME SEVERE LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. THE PRIMARY SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY THIS EVENING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER ALL HAZARDS RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
140 PM EDT TUE JUN 01 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0200 AM TSTM WND DMG NEW BOSTON 38.75N 82.93W
05/31/2004 SCIOTO OH OTHER FEDERAL
LARGE LIMBS AND BRANCHES DOWN
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RLGThe Cincinnati radar (KILN), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:30 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were downed near the intersection of US Route 62 and State Route 321.
Trees were knocked down, severely damaging two parked vehicles.
Numerous trees were knocked down.
One tree and several large limbs were downed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, June 2004
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: 5409402, 5409403, 5409401, 5409351, 5409400.