Ohio, 2005

Flooding in Ohio, June 8, 2005

June 8, 2005 · NWS ILN · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

3 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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  • Wind
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  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
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  • Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
3

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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 8, 1:40 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 8, 1:40 PM EST, 1 hour 40 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
240 PM EDT WED JUN  2005

.SHORT TERM (TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT)...
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED ACROSS THE AREA THIS
AFTERNOON IN UNSTABLE AIRMASS. WITH LACK OF GOOD FORCING MECHANISM
AND WEAK WIND FIELDS...STORMS HAVE BEEN RATHER UNORGANIZED SO FAR
AND EXPECT THIS TO GENERALLY CONTINUE INTO THIS EVENING. MODELS ARE
PICKING UP ON A WEAK SHORT WAVE...CURRENTLY PUSHING ACROSS SOUTHERN
ILLINOIS INTO SOUTHERN INDIANA AND THIS IS FORECAST TO WEAKEN AS IT
PUSHES INTO OUR ARE THIS EVENING. THIS MAY HELP KEEP THINGS GOING A
LITTLE LONGER INTO THE TONIGHT PERIOD BUT THINK WITH GENERAL DIURNAL
NATURE OF STORMS...ANY ACTIVITY SHOULD BE ENDING BY AROUND MIDNIGHT.
THEN EXPECT MORE OF THE SAME FOR THURSDAY WITH SCATTERED COVERAGE
ACROSS THE AREA DURING MAINLY DIURNALLY FAVORED TIME OF AFTERNOON
INTO EARLY EVENING. PWS UP TO AROUND 1.6 INCHES THIS AFTERNOON ARE
FORECAST TO CLIMB TO AROUND 1.7 INCHES THROUGH THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
GIVEN LIGHT WIND REGIME...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINERS WILL BE POSSIBLE
ACROSS ENTIRE AREA INTO THIS EVENING AND THEN AGAIN THURSDAY
AFTERNOON INTO THURSDAY EVENING. HAVE STUCK PRETTY CLOSE TO MAV/FWC
GUIDANCE TEMPS WITH HIGHS IN THE MID 80S AND LOWS IN THE UPPER 60S
TO NEAR 70.
&&

.LONG TERM (FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY)...
WARM AND HUMID CONDITIONS WILL CONTINUE FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS AS
BERMUDA HIGH REMAINS IN PLACE.  THE CHANCE FOR DIURNALLY CONVECTION
WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MOST OF THE LONG TERM AS LACK OF STRONG UPPER
SUPPORT CONTINUES.  THEREFORE HAVE CONTINUED CHANCE POPS.  TROPICAL
MOISTURE IS PROGGED TO SURGE INTO THE REGION LATE IN THE WEEKEND.
COLD FRONT WILL PUSH WEST ACROSS THE CWA LATE ON TUESDAY.  FOR NOW
HAVE KEPT WEDNESDAY DRY AS HIGH PRESSURE BEGINS TO BUILD IN.
&&

.AVIATION (18Z-18Z)...
SCT CONVECTION WILL POP UP JUST ABOUT ANYWHERE THIS AFTERNOON. DRY
PUNCH NOTED ALONG IN/OH BORDER...BUT MUCH OF REGION IS UNDERNEATH
SCT CU AROUND 4KFT. EXPECT THIS CU TO BECOME TEMPO BKN THIS
AFTERNOON WITH ISOLD TSRA AND HEAVY RAIN THAT SHOULDNT AFFECT TAF
SITES BUT WILL BE IN VICINITY. TEMPO IS TOO PESSIMISTIC FOR THE
EXPECTED TIME COVERAGE AS SHOWERS ARE BASICALLY SHORT LIVED EARLY
THIS AFTERNOON. PROBS CANT BE USED IN 1ST 9 HOURS...SO IM LEFT
WITH WAITING TO SEE IF TSRA WILL AFFECT TAF SITES AND AMENDING WHEN
IT DEVELOPS.

LOSS OF DAYTIME HEATING SHOULD ALLOW SKIES TO GO BACK TO FEW/SCT OR
EVEN CLEAR FOR A PERIOD TONIGHT. MISSED FOG ON YESTERDAYS FCST FOR
THIS MORNING...AM INCLUDING IT TONIGHT AS SAME AMS WILL BE IN PLACE.
WINDS GENERALLY LIGHT SOUTH AND WILL DECOUPLE OVERNIGHT.

MORE OF THE SAME EXPECTED FOR THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

FRANKS

&&

.ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...NONE.
KY...NONE.
IN...NONE.

&&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 8, 4:39 AM EST, 10 hours 41 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
539 AM EDT WED JUN 8 2005

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-090937-
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-
539 AM EDT WED JUN 8 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN INDIANA...NORTHERN
KENTUCKY AND THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF OHIO.

.DAY ONE...TODAY

SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ACROSS THE REGION
THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING.  THESE STORMS WILL BE SLOW MOVERS...WITH
HEAVY RAINFALL AND LOCALIZED FLOODING A CONCERN.  SOME OF THE STORMS
WILL BE STRONG...AND AN ISOLATED SEVERE STORM IS NOT OUT OF THE
QUESTION.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY

EXPECT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH DAY...PRIMARILY
DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.

RYAN

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Event by event

3 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Flood, Madison

When
June 8, 3:20 PM EST to 4:15 PM EST
Where
Madison forecast zone
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
39.894, -83.400 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Scattered thunderstorms producing localized flooding across portions of central Ohio. The storms produced between two and three inches of rain from central Madison county, east across the Columbus metro area. Several roads were flooded across the southern Columbus suburbs between Grove City and Pickerington.

Flood, Fairfield

When
June 8, 3:50 PM EST to 5:30 PM EST
Where
Fairfield forecast zone
Reported by
LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates
40.683, -83.633

Scattered thunderstorms producing localized flooding across portions of central Ohio. The storms produced between two and three inches of rain from central Madison county, east across the Columbus metro area. Several roads were flooded across the southern Columbus suburbs between Grove City and Pickerington.

Flood, Franklin

When
June 8, 4:45 PM EST to 5:30 PM EST
Where
Franklin forecast zone
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates
41.533, -81.200

Scattered thunderstorms producing localized flooding across portions of central Ohio. The storms produced between two and three inches of rain from central Madison county, east across the Columbus metro area. Several roads were flooded across the southern Columbus suburbs between Grove City and Pickerington.

What these are

Flood
Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

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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: 5462894, 5462896, 5462895.