1 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 May 10, 2:44 PM EST, 1 hour 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 344 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2006 .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... SURFACE ANALYSIS SHOWS LOW PRESSURE JUST WEST OF PADUCAH WITH WARM FRONT ACROSS WESTERN KY. SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS PLENTY OF CLOUD COVER ACROSS REGION. REGIONAL RADARS SHOWING BAND OF SHOWERS LIFTING TO THE NORTH OF DAYTON WITH GOOD COVERAGE OVER SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL INDIANA. MODELS ARE IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT WITH TAKING SURFACE LOW AND DEEPENING IT AS IT ROTATES NORTH ALONG THE IN/OH BORDER INTO SRN MI. GFS HAS LOW DEEPENING TO 985 MB AND NAM TO 983 MB BY THURSDAY MORNING. ASSOCIATED UPPER LOW ALSO DEEPENS DRAMATICALLY AS WELL AND HANGS OUT NEAR LAKE MI THURSDAY INTO THURSDAY NIGHT. WILL GO WITH CATEGORICAL POPS TONIGHT AND THEN BACK OFF TO LIKELY THURSDAY AND CHANCE THURSDAY NIGHT. THE DECREASE IS DUE TO THE LOSS OF STRONG LARGE SCALE FORCING. FOR TONIGHT WILL ADD STRONG MENTION TO THUNDERSTORM THREAT. TONIGHT IS NOT CLEAR CUT WHEN IT COMES TO SEVERE THREAT. GFS IS MORE GENEROUS WITH INSTABILITY WITH 500 TO 1000 J/KG. HOWEVER NAM IS MUCH LESS THAN 500 J/KG. DEEPENING LOW WILL PROVIDE FAVORABLE WIND FIELD. AT THIS POINT NOT REAL THRILLED ABOUT THE CHANCE OF SEVERE OR TORNADOES BUT CANT IGNORE THE PATTERN AND WILL MONITOR INSTABILITY OVERNIGHT. COLD FRONT WILL GO THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. WINDS WILL BE GUSTY TO 30 TO 35 MPH. WILL MONITOR THIS AS WELL AS PREVIOUS RUN HAD HIGHER GUST POTENTIAL IN THE COLD AIR ADVECTION. THERE ALSO APPEARS TO BE A SECONDARY COLD FRONT THAT WILL GO THROUGH DURING THE DAY ON THURSDAY. THIS MIGHT HAVE ENOUGH KICK TO PRODUCE A LITTLE BIT OF THUNDER. THUS HAVE ADDED ISOL THUNDER. MAV TEMPS LOOK PRETTY GOOD WILL ONLY MAKE MINOR TWEAKS. TIPTON && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... MODELS HANGING ON TO UPPER LEVEL LOW/TROUGH THROUGH THE MAJORITY OF THE LONG TERM FORECAST. AS WOULD BE EXPECTED...THERE ARE DISCREPANCIES IN THE EXACT LOCATION OF THE LOW AND ASSOCIATED TEMPERATURE PROFILES BETWEEN THE MODELS. HOWEVER...GENERAL TREND IS TO KEEP THINGS MOSTLY CLOUDY AND COOL THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS. WITH UPPER LEVEL LOW IN PLACE...WOULD THINK THERE WOULD BE AT LEAST A BIT OF A DIURNAL COMPONENT TO THE SHOWER ACTIVITY SO WILL PLAY GRIDS ACCORDINGLY. RIGHT NOW...INSTABILITY LOOKS TO BE LIMITED BUT AGAIN...WITH AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESENT THIS TIME OF YEAR...TOUGH TO RULE OUT SOME AFTERNOON INSTABILITY AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS. RIGHT NOW THIS CHANCE LOOKS LOW ENOUGH TO LEAVE OUT OF FORECAST BUT WILL HAVE TO MONITOR THIS AS WE PROGRESS THROUGH THE NEXT WEEK. GIVEN UNSEASONABLY COOL UPPER LEVEL LOW...EXPECT BELOW NORMAL TEMPERATURES TO PERSIST THROUGH THE LONG TERM PERIOD...PARTICULARLY WITH DAYTIME HIGHS. AS A RESULT...WILL TREND TEMPS A LITTLE COOLER AND UNDERCUT GUIDANCE HIGH TEMPERATURES A FEW DEGREES. && .AVIATION /18Z-18Z/... AREA OF SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT TERMINALS THIS AFTERNOON. CONDITIONS WILL BRIEFLY DROP TO IFR IN THE SHOWERS. ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE EARLY THIS AFTERNOON...SO JUST HAVE A CB MENTION IN FOR NOW. AS LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEEPENS...BETTER CHANCE FOR THUNDER IS LATER THIS EVENING SO HAVE A TEMPO GROUP AT THAT TIME. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE WEST LATE IN THE PERIOD AS THE FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY. GUSTS TO 30 ARE POSSIBLE LATE IN THE PERIOD. RLG && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 536 AM EDT WED MAY 10 2006 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-110945- 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- 536 AM EDT WED MAY 10 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE LIKELY TODAY INTO TONIGHT AS LOW PRESSURE DEVELOPS ALONG A FRONTAL BOUNDARY. THE STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS PLACED THE AREA IN A SLIGHT RISK FOR SEVERE WEATHER. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED.
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 80 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:33 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A roof was blown off of the patio of a home along the Ohio River. The roof was carried 100 feet uphill and over US Route 52 before being dropped. Several trees were downed as well. The damage was caused by a possible microburst.
A brief tornado moved along a half mile path just north of Rocky Fork Lake. A restaurant along North Shore Road sustained minor siding damage. A real estate office along North Beach Road had portions of its aluminum roof peeled back or completely ripped off. The most extensive damage occurred to a residence about a tenth of a mile to the north-northeast of the real estate office. The home sustained major roof damage, and had an enclosed patio on its front porch completed removed and strewn behind the home. The majority of the patio was deposited into a deck and above ground pool behind the house, causing additional damage. A few trees between six and twelve inches in diameter were snapped between the real estate office and the residence.
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: 5510729, 5510728.