2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 16, 6:30 PM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OHIO 730 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005 .AVIATION (00Z-24Z)... CONVECTIVE PRECIP WL SLOLY DIMINISH TNGT BUT SOME SHRA AND PSBLY A FEW TSRA MAY LINGER THRU THE NITE. XPCT COVERAGE TO BE LIMITED SO WL LIKELY NOT CARRY THUNDER OTHER THAN WHERE APPEARS IMMINENT AT TAF TIME. MORE FOG WL OCCUR TNGT AT CURRENT FOG AND HZ THICKEN AS SKIES BCM PC. FOG SHUD BE WORST AT INLAND SITES WITH LESS AT CLE AND ERI DUE TO SLY DWNSLP FLOW. && .SHORT TERM(TONIGHT THRU TUE)... ACTIVITY SHOULD BE MOST DIURNAL AND START DECREASING AFTER DARK. STORMS ARE MOVING FASTER THAN YDA...SOME LOCALIZED HEAVY RAIN MAY STILL OCCUR. HOWEVER WITH THE AIRMASS MOIST AND UNSTABLE WILL KEEP THE THREAT GOING ALL NIGHT. BEST DYNAMICS SEEMS TO BE MORE NORTH AND WELL SOUTH OF THE FORECAST AREA ON SUNDAY...HOWEVER...WILL FORECAST SCT. ACTIVITY WILL SUNDAY NIGHT AND A CHANCE MONDAY IN THE UNSTABLE AIR. MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH. NAM IS FASTER THAN GFS...THE TYPICAL SCENARIO IS SLOWER IS BEST...WL GO WITH THAT. GUID TEMPS IS OK. && .LONG TERM(TUE NGT THRU SATURDAY)... A WEAK FRONT TRIES TO MOVE INTO AREA THU NGT OR FRI...ECMWF KEEPS IT NORTH AND GFSLR BRINGS IT SOUTH. FORECAST SOME PCPN AS TIMING AND HOW FAR SOUTH IT WILL GO IS IN QUESTION. OTRW DRY. GUID AND HPC TEMPS OK. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .OH...NONE. .PA...NONE. SHORT TERM...KIELTYKA LONG TERM...KIELTYKA AVIATION...ADAMS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 409 AM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005 OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089-PAZ001>003-170808- 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 409 AM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTION OF NORTHERN OHIO AND A PORTION OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY ACROSS MUCH OF NORTHERN OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA TODAY. WHILE WIDESPREAD SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED...A FEW STORMS COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED WIND DAMAGE. HEAVY RAINFALL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ARE POSSIBLE BOTH SUNDAY AND MONDAY. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
627 PM EDT SAT JUL 16 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0443 PM TSTM WND DMG CHESTERLAND 41.52N 81.34W
07/16/2005 GEAUGA OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
0452 PM TSTM WND DMG CHARDON 41.58N 81.21W
07/16/2005 GEAUGA OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
0510 PM TSTM WND DMG PERRY 41.77N 81.14W
07/16/2005 LAKE OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN IN PERRY AND MADISON.
0530 PM TSTM WND DMG GENEVA 41.80N 80.95W
07/16/2005 ASHTABULA OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
6 TO 8 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN
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LEINSThe Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:44 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm winds downed many trees across the county.
Thunderstorms dumped locally heavy rains on southern Erie County. A spotter near Union City measured 2.1 inches of rain in an hour with a storm total of 2.46 inches. 2.7 inches of rain fell in less than two hours in Waterford. Several roads had to be closed because of flood waters up to two feet deep.
Thunderstorms dumped locally heavy rains on northern and central Crawford County. A spotter near Canadohta Lake measured 1.5 inches of rain in 25 minutes and 3.7 inches in just under two hours. Several roads had to be closed because of flood waters up to two feet deep. U.S. Route 19 was flooded southwest of Meadville after Geneva Swamp overfilled.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, July 2005
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: 5466947, 5466949, 5466948.