Thunderstorm Wind, Medina
- When
- May 11, 7:10 PM EST
- Where
- Medina County, Medina
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.133, -81.867
Thunderstorm winds downed two trees.
Damaging Wind in Ohio, May 11, 2004
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What forecasters said that day
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 May 11, 2:30 PM EST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 11, 2:30 PM EST, 4 hours 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 330 PM EDT TUE MAY 11 2004 .DISCUSSION... FOR THIS EVG WOULD XPC TSTMS ACRS CNTRL AND WRN OH TO MOV NORTH INTO THE COUNTY WARNING AREA. ATTM NOT OUTLOOKED BY SPC. MSAS LIS AT 18Z RUNNING FROM -3 TO -5 IN THE AREA WITH MORE UNSTBL CONDS SE AND WEST OF THE AREA. COULD BE AN ISOLATED EVENT BUT DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH PROB THIS EVG. WILL CARRY TSTMS INTO THE EVENING EVERYWHERE BUT LOOKS LIKE BEST CHC WILL BE WRN HALF OF THE AREA. TNGT WARM FRONT NOW IN THE VCNTY WILL MOVE NORTH OF THE AREA AND REMAIN OUT OF THE PICTURE. WED WILL START OUT WITH A DRY FCST WITHOUT ANY FOCUSING MECH BUT BY AFTN...HEATING WILL BRING LIS DOWN TO -4 TO -6 RANGE AND FCST CAPE TO 800-1200J/KG. BUFKIT SHOWS NO CAP BY AFTERNOON SO THIS WARRENTS A CHC. BEING IN THE WARM SECTOR WILL GO WITH PC SKIES DESPITE THE MSTR PROGS. WILL KEEP THIS SAME THEME RUNNING WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY AS WELL WITH CHC POPS DURING THE AFTN AND EVG AND GNRLY PC SKIES. ETA BRINGS A CDFNT INTO NWRN OH ON FRIDAY AFTN WHILE AVN HOLDS IT OFF UNTIL FRIDAY NIGHT. GVN INSTBY AHEAD OF THE FRONT WOULD XPC TSTMS BOTH AHEAD OF AND ALONG THE FRONT. WILL GO AHEAD AND PLACE LKLY POPS IN THE NW FOR THE AFTN FRIDAY. DEPENDING ON THE MDL...THIS COULD BE A BIT FAST BUT THEY SHOULD BE CLOSE AND WL HOLD CNTRL AND ERN ZONES TO A CHC. FRIDAY NIGHT WILL BRING LKLY ACRS THE CWA WITH FROPA. SAT STARTS OUT MOIST BUT BY SAT NIGHT...SFC HIGH TRIES TO PUSH INTO THE AREA FROM THE NW AS FRONT STALLS/DSIPTS TO OUR SE. MSTR NOT FAR AWAY BUT WILL GO WITH AREA DRYG FROM THE NW AS HINTED BY THE AVN BY SAT NIGHT. MRF A CONTS TREND INTO SUNDAY. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, May 11, 4:40 AM EST, 14 hours 30 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 540 AM EDT TUE MAY 11 2004 OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-111200- ASHLAND OH-ASHTABULA INLAND OH-ASHTABULA LAKESHORE OH-CRAWFORD PA- CRAWFORD OH-CUYAHOGA OH-ERIE OH-GEAUGA OH-HANCOCK OH-HOLMES OH- HURON OH-KNOX OH-LAKE OH-LORAIN OH-LUCAS OH-MAHONING OH-MARION OH- MEDINA OH-MORROW OH-NORTHERN ERIE PA-OTTAWA OH-PORTAGE OH- RICHLAND OH-SANDUSKY OH-SENECA OH-SOUTHERN ERIE PA-STARK OH- SUMMIT OH-TRUMBULL OH-WAYNE OH-WOOD OH-WYANDOT OH- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...AKRON...ASHLAND...ASHTABULA... BOWLING GREEN...BUCYRUS...CANTON...CHARDON...CLEVELAND...ELYRIA... ERIE...FINDLAY...FOSTORIA...FREMONT...JEFFERSON...LORAIN... MANSFIELD...MARION...MEADVILLE...MEDINA...MILLERSBURG... MOUNT GILEAD...MOUNT VERNON...NORWALK...PAINESVILLE...PORT CLINTON... RAVENNA...SANDUSKY...TIFFIN...TOLEDO...UPPER SANDUSKY...WARREN... WOOSTER AND YOUNGSTOWN 540 AM EDT TUE MAY 11 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTION OF NORTHERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ACROSS NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA TODAY AHEAD OF A COLD FRONT WHICH WILL MOVE INTO NORTHERN OHIO LATER TODAY...HOWEVER NO SEVERE WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED TODAY.
The radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 31 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:07 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Rip Current in Florida, May 11, 2004
- Ice Storm in North Dakota, May 11 to 12, 2004
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Texas, May 11, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, May 11 to 12, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 11, 2004
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 11, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, May 11, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, May 11, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Dakota, May 11, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, May 11, 2004
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 11, 2004
- Rip Current in Florida, May 11, 2004
More
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Sources
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: 5400274.