8 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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 6, 2:35 AM EST, 1 hour 30 minutes earlier.
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
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 322 PM EST SAT NOV 5 2005 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-062030- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO- SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT- PENDLETON-BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE- DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK- MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH- PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON- CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO- 322 PM EST SAT NOV 5 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AN APPROACHING COLD FRONT WILL SEE STRONG SOUTHERLY WINDS DEVELOP AHEAD OF IT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THIS FRONT TONIGHT. THE STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL LIKELY RACE AHEAD OF THE FRONT DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS...PARTICLUARLY ALONG AND WEST OF THE I-75 CORRIDOR. WINDS MAY GUST TO 40 AND 45 MPH DURING THE NIGHT. PEOPLE SHOULD BRING IN OR SECURE LOOSE OBJECTS SUCH AS TRASH CANS OR LAWN FURNITURE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATER TONIGHT.
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 86 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 09:06 UTC.
8 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A few large tree limbs were knocked down.
Trees were downed.
Trees were knocked down, including a large diameter tree near the intersection of State Route 48 and Faulkner Road.
Large limbs to 2.5 feet in diameter were knocked down along Main Street and Russel Road.
A weak tornado breifly touched down in a field near Russellville with some trees downed.
Two houses had roof damage and siding peeled. A few trailers were tipped over along the north side of Indian Lake. Numerous trees and power lines were also downed.
Trees were downed.
Power lines were knocked down due to thunderstorm winds.
A few trees were downed.
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: 5485122, 5485119, 5485120, 5485123, 5485121, 5485125, 5485124, 5485127, 5485126.