Flood and Hail in Ohio, March 11, 2006

Name: Flood and Hail in Ohio, March 11, 2006
Start: 2006-03-11T18:10
End: 2006-03-11T20:30
Location: Ohio

March 11, 2006 · NWS ILN · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

1 hail, 1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 2

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 Mar 11, 4:46 PM EST, 1 hour 24 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 11, 4:46 PM EST, 1 hour 24 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
446 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2006

.SHORT TERM (TODAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT)...
ACTIVE WEATHER PATTERN OVER THE SHORT TERM. WARM FRONT WILL PUSH
NORTH THIS EVENING. NEXT SHOT OF WIDESPREAD PRECIP WILL BE LATE
TONIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY AS WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES ALONG THE
FRONT. ANOTHER WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE ALONG THE BOUNDARY
SUNDAY NIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY...BRINGING ANOTHER SHOT OF PRECIP.
HAVE GONE AHEAD AND ISSUED FLOOD WATCH FOR THE ENTIRE CWA THROUGH
MONDAY 00Z. GROUND IS ALREADY SATURATED AND PRECIPITABLE WATER
VALUES APPROACH 1.5 INCHES DURING THIS PERIOD. BETTER CHANCE OF
SEVERE WILL ALSO BE SUNDAY NIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING WHEN BETTER
INSTABILITY AND STRONGER DYNAMICS ARE PRESENT. AFTER LOW PUSHES
NORTHEAST LATE ON MONDAY/EARLY TUESDAY...THICKNESSES SUPPORT RAIN
CHANGING OVER TO SNOW. NO ACCUMULATION OF EXPECTED. FOR TEMPS
STAYED CLOSE TO GUIDANCE OVERNIGHT. STUCK CLOSE TO MAV AND MET
NUMBERS FOR REMAINDER OF PERIOD. FWC NUMBERS SEEM A BIT COOL. RLG

&&

.LONG TERM (TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY)...
DEPARTING SYSTEM ON TUE WITH UPPER TROF COMING THRU AND UPPER LVL
FLO BECOMING NWRLY. HAVE MENT OF CHC OF MIXED LINGERING PCPN TUE
BUT GENERALLY HAVE SPED UP THE ENDING TIME BASED ON TRENDS.

SECONDARY FRONT TO PIVOT THRU TUE NIGHT SO HAVE KEPT A SLIGHT CHC
OF SNOW SHOWERS IN THE NE WHERE MSTR AND LIFT ARE BEST. SFC HI PRES
TO BUILD SE INTO THE OH VLY WED. HAVE DRY FCST WED/WED NIGHT WITH
HI PRES DOMINATING.

NEXT WEATHER SYSTEM...A SFC LOW TO TRACK FROM THE MID MS VLY INTO
THE OH VLY THU/THU NIGHT. TRENDS ARE SLOWER AND FURTHER SOUTH WITH
THIS SYSTEM. HAVE SLOWED THE ONSET OF PRECIP TO DAYBREAK THU AND
INCREASED POPS TO LKLY N AND HI CHC SOUTH. UPPER LVL TROF TO PIVOT
THRU EARLY FRIDAY AND THUS HAVE LINGERED A CHC OF SNOW SHOWERS EARLY
FRI. IN NWRLY FLOW SFC HI PRESSURE TO OFFER DRY WX REMAINDER OF FRI
INTO SAT.

TEMP WISE...HAVE TRENDED TEMPS COOLER THAN PREV FCST AND COOLER THAN
MEX GUID GENERALLY CLOSER TO MEN VALUES THRU THE PERIOD.

&&

.AVIATION (18Z-18Z)...
MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT ALONG WITH FAVORABLE SURFACE
CONVERGENCE WILL CONTINUE TO RESULT IN UNSETTLED WEATHER AT ILN
TAF SITES. EXPECT SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MUCH
OF THE FORECAST. A LULL MAY OCCUR THIS EVENING WHEN THE LOW LEVEL
JET RELAXES. ACTIVITY WILL REKINDLE EARLY SUNDAY. VISIBILITIES
WILL GENERALLY BE MVFR...WITH CEILINGS VFR TO MVFR.

&&

.ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...FLOOD WATCH FOR OHZ026-034-035-042>046-051>056-060>065-070>074-
     077>082-088 UNTIL 7 PM MONDAY.
KY...FLOOD WATCH FOR KYZ089>100 UNTIL 7 PM MONDAY.
IN...FLOOD WATCH FOR INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080 UNTIL 7 PM
     MONDAY.
&&

Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 11, 4:20 PM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
420 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2006

INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046-
051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-121215-
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-
420 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2006

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...TONIGHT
A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH ACROSS THE REGION OVERNIGHT. THIS WILL
BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HEAVY RAINFALL
WILL BE POSSIBLE. WITH THE GROUND ALREADY SATURATED...URBAN AND
SMALL STREAM FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL PUSH ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY
SUNDAY NIGHT INTO THE MONDAY MORNING. THIS WILL BRING ANOTHER
SHOT OF RAINFALL. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE ONCE
AGAIN...WITH URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE.
THE ATMOSPHERE WILL ALSO BE UNSTABLE...SO SOME OF THE
THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE STRONG TO SEVERE.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED SUNDAY NIGHT.

The radar

The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 27 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:10 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Warren

When: March 11, 6:10 PM EST to 6:14 PM EST
Where: Warren County, 6 mi NE of Lebanon
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Reported by: AMATEUR RADIO
Coordinates: 39.500, -84.117

Flood, Adams

When: March 11, 7:35 PM EST to 8:30 PM EST
Where: Adams County, 4 mi SW of West Union
Reported by: LAW ENFORCEMENT
Coordinates: 38.767, -83.583

Heavy rain affected south central Ohio during the evening, with some locations receiving over one inch across Adams County. The heavy rain caused some high water over State Route 41 near Bentonville.

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
Flood: Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Ohio in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Ohio, March 2006

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: 5498128, 5498127.