A line of thunderstorms moved east across northern Ohio.
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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 episode as NWS CLE wrote it up.
A line of thunderstorms moved east across northern Ohio.
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 Apr 23, 6:40 PM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 740 PM EDT MON APR 23 2007 .AVIATION /00Z-24Z/... INSTABILITY AND SHEAR HELPING TO SUSTAIN TSTMS ACROSS THE EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN TERMINALS. WILL CONTINUE TSTMS IN THAT AREA THROUGH 04Z. AFTER THAT WILL BRING TAFS TO VFR. CONCERNED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF MORNING FOG OR MIST ALTHOUGH EXPECT WINDS TO REMAIN UP ENOUGH TO NOT ALLOW MUCH DEVELOPMENT. VFR FOR TUES WITH NORTHERLY WINDS. && .SHORT TERM /TONIGHT-WED NIGHT/... LOW PRES LIFTING NE OF GRTLKS WL DRAG A TRAILING CDFNT SE ACRS CWA THIS EVE. AMS MARGINALLY UNSTBL WITH LIS JUST BLW ZERO BUT WND FIELDS MORE IMPRESSIVE. LIMITED MSTR WL CUT BACK ON TSRA DVLPMNT AS STILL HAVING TO OVERCOME A FAIR AMT OF CIN. FOR NOW STILL WATCHING AND WAITING FOR DVLPMNT TO OCCUR IN WRN PART OF CWA AHD OF WK WND SHIFT. IF A GOOD TSRA GETS GOING THE SHEAR PROFILE CUD ALLOW THE STRM TO BCM SVR. ACTIVITY SEEMS TO FLARE UP A BIT DURG THE EVE OVR SRN HALF OF CWA...PROB ALG NOSE OF SLIGHTLY HIER DWPTS THEN QUICKLY MOVS SE OF AREA AS CDFNT MOVS TO NR THE OH RVR BY LATE TNGT. DRIER AIR SPREADS SSE OVR CWA LATE TNGT AND TUE MORN AND SHUD KP PRECIP THREAT S OF CWA FM LATE TNGT THRU MIDNIGHT TUE NITE. WNDS REST OF AFTN AND EARLY EVE SHUD STAY ABT WHERE THEY CURRENTLY ARE WHICH CONTS TO BE BLW ADVSRY CRITERIA. THEN THINGS GET MORE QUESTIONABLE AS MODELS DIFFER ON HOW FAST PRECIP RETURNS LATE TUE NITE INTO WED MORN. NAM HAD BEEN SLOWER THAN GFS PREVIOUS RUNS THEN 12Z RUN NAM JUMPED TO LOOK MORE LIKE PREVIOUS GFS RUNS. NGM NOW OUT TO 12Z WED KEEPS PRECIP SW OF CWA WITH BAND OF MOSTLY CONVECTIVE PRECIP STRETCHED EWRD ACRS SRN OH INTO WV. GFS NOW HAS BACKED OFF TO LOOK MORE LIKE PREVIOUS NAM WITH JUST A DRIBBLE OF QPF INTO WRN 1/3 OF CWA BY 12Z WED. WL PROB STICK CLOSER TO MIDDLE OF THE ROAD GFS AS MSTR SPREADING OVR CWA LATE TUE NITE MAINLY MID LVL WITH DRIER AIR TRYING TO LINGER IN BNDRY LYR MSTR CONVERGC INTO AREA ON WED WL PROVIDE GUD ROUND OF WIDESPREAD PRECIP THEN SHUD TAPER BACK SOME INTO WED NITE AS WK WV MOVS E OF AREA AND ENERGY FOCUSES BACK ON SLO MOVG UPR SYS STILL INCHING ITS WAY NE OVR MO. && .LONG TERM /THU-MON/... WEAKENING UPR AND SFC LOW MOVG UP OH VLY WL CONT CHC FOR SHRA AND COOLER THAN NORMAL TEMPS THU THRU FRI. MODELS TRY AND KP WEAKENING LOW NR OH AND PA BRDR BY LATE FRI BUT THIS KEEPS JUMPING ARND WITH EACH MODEL RUN SO NOT CONFIDENT SO CHC POPS IN ORDER. NOW 12Z RUNS ARE IN AND BOTH NAM AND GFS BRING MAIN LOW FARTHER NW THAN ANYTHING PREVIOUS TO THIS. WL BUMP POPS FOR THU AND THU NITE MORE TO ACCOUNT FOR THIS. ANOTHER UPR TROF PROGGED TO MOV THRU LWR GRTLKS SAT BUT SFC RDGG INTO AREA FM THE SW SO WL ONLY CARRY SLGT CHC UNLESS COORD DICTATES OTRW. ANOTHER STG CDFNT WAS SHOWN ON 06Z RUN TO BE CROSSING AREA ABT SUN NITE SO CHC FOR CONVECTIVE PRECIP SUN AND SUN NITE THEN BACK TO COOL ON MON WITH MNLY CHC SHRA IN SNOWBELT COS AS TEMPS MAY BE COOL ENUF FOR ADDED LK ENHANCED THREAT FOR SHRA. NEW 12Z GFS RUN HAS PATTERN MUCH WARMER FOR EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH ONLY A WEAK CDFNT SOMEWHERE NEAR THE AREA BY LATE MONDAY(?) FOR NOW CONFIDENCE IS SO LOW WITH WHOLE EXTENDED PATTERN FEEL THAT ALMOST ANY SCENARIO IS POSSIBLE SO WL SIDE WITH ANYTHING THAT COORDINATES OKAY. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. && SHORT TERM...ADAMS LONG TERM...ADAMS AVIATION...TK
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 649 AM EDT MON APR 23 2007 LEZ142>149-162>169-OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047-089- PAZ001>003-241100- MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH-RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH- THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH-VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH-WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE LAKE OH-GENEVA- ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH-CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- MAUMEE BAY OH TO RENO BEACH OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-WILLOWICK TO GENEVA- ON-THE-LAKE OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-GENEVA-ON-THE- LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE- CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY BEYOND 5 NM OF SHORE-LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA- SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND- HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON-MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD- RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING-MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX- ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA- 649 AM EDT MON APR 23 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE...NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A COLD FRONT WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THE THUNDERSTORMS COULD BE STRONG AND A FEW COULD EVEN BE SEVERE. THE MAIN THREAT WOULD BE DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. KIELTYKA
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 92 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:43 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A thunderstorm downburst caused damage at a farm northeast of Nashville along State Route 514. A barn on the property lost it's roof and several trees were downed.
Penny to quarter size hail was observed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, April 2007
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: 28936, 28934.