Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms developed over west central Ohio during the evening.
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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 ILN wrote it up.
Isolated strong to severe thunderstorms developed over west central Ohio during the evening.
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 Jul 5, 6:36 PM EST, 51 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 736 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2007 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL PUSH THROUGH THE OHIO VALLEY THIS EVENING. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN BUILD INTO THE REGION FOR THE WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM FRIDAY MORNING/... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WEAKENING ACROSS SOUTHERN PORTIONS OF FA SO HAVE LOWERED POPS TO 30 PERCENT THERE. STILL SOME ISOLATED ACTIVITY TO THE NORTH OF OUR FA SO ALSO HUNG ON TO A 20 POP FOR THE NORTH THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE...EXPECT DRY CONDITIONS OVERNIGHT. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT/... SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO THE AREA FRIDAY INTO FRIDAY NIGHT. AIRMASS IS DRIER BEHIND THE FRONT BUT NOT CONSIDERABLY COOLER. STILL THOUGH...GFS APPEARS TOO WARM WITH HIGHS FOR FRIDAY AND WILL TREND TOWARD THE COOLER FWC/MET GUIDANCE. && .LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... WESTERLIES ACROSS THE GREAT LAKES WILL SHIFT NORTHWARD THIS WEEKEND AS FLOW BECOMES MORE ZONAL. EXPECT A GRADUAL WARMUP THROUGH MONDAY...WITH TEMPERATURES RETURNING TO THE LOWER 90S. WENT CLOSE TO WARM MEX NUMBERS FOR HIGHS THROUGH THIS PERIOD. MODEL SPREAD REMAINS SIGNIFICANT WITH PATTERN NEXT WEEK...ESPECIALLY WITH POTENTIAL FRONTAL PASSAGE EARLY OR MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. GFS CONTINUES ITS RUN TO RUN INCONSISTENCIES...AND NOW DOES NOT BRING FROPA THROUGH THE AREA ON TUESDAY AS PREVIOUSLY FORECAST. STUCK CLOSE TO ENSEMBLE MEAN FOR NEXT WEEK WHICH IS MUCH SLOWER WITH FRONT...WITH BEST GUESS TIMING HOLDING OFF UNTIL THURSDAY. THEREFORE HAVE REDUCED AND SLOWED DOWN POPS NEXT WEEK AND RAISED TEMPS QUITE A BIT...STICKING TO THE HIGHER SIDE OF THE MODEL ENSEMBLE. HAWBLITZEL && .AVIATION /00Z FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... CONDITIONS WILL BE MAINLY VFR. CONVECTION HAS GENERALLY DISSIPATED AND WILL NOT REDEVELOP IN FRIDAYS STABLE AIRMASS. MVFR MIST MAY FORM LATE TONIGHT AT LUK AND LCK UNDER CALM WINDS. OUTLOOK...NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 721 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2007 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-062330- 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- 721 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR 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 NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
346 PM EDT THU JUL 05 2007
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0340 PM TSTM WND DMG RISING SUN 38.95N 84.86W
07/04/2007 OHIO IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES AND LARGE LIMBS DOWN
&&SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 527 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2007 OHZ035-052200- AUGLAIZE OH- 527 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT AUGLAIZE COUNTY THROUGH 600 PM EDT... AT 524 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR BUCKLAND...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... WAPAKONETA...FRYBURG...UNIOPOLIS...ST. JOHNS AND WAYNESFIELD. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT. IF THIS STORM BECOME STRONGER...THEN A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 604 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2007 OHZ064-065-074-052230- FAIRFIELD OH-HOCKING OH-PICKAWAY OH- 604 PM EDT THU JUL 5 2007 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN PICKAWAY... NORTHWESTERN HOCKING AND SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTIES THROUGH 630 PM EDT... AT 559 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR A.W. MARION STATE PARK...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THIS STORM WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE AFFECTED BY THIS STORM INCLUDE... STOUTSVILLE...ROYALTON...AMANDA...TARLTON...CLEARPORT...LANCASTER... ROCKBRIDGE...ENTERPRISE...HIDEAWAY HILLS...LAKE LOGAN STATE PARK... NORTH BERNE AND SUGAR GROVE. RESIDENTS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT. IF THIS STORM BECOME STRONGER...THEN A WARNING MAY BE NEEDED.
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 138 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:27 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Three trees were knocked down on power lines, causing a power outage.
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