Thunderstorm Wind, Guernsey
- When
- June 19, 3:20 PM EST
- Where
- Guernsey County, Cambridge
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 40.030, -81.600
EMA reported trees down West of Cambridge.
Damaging Winds in Ohio, June 19, 2007
A cold front approaching from the West interacted with a warm and humid air mass provoking the development of showers and thunderstorms across the region. Several storms became severe with damaging winds and large hail.
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
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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 happened
The episode as NWS PBZ wrote it up.
A cold front approaching from the West interacted with a warm and humid air mass provoking the development of showers and thunderstorms across the region. Several storms became severe with damaging winds and large hail.
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 Pittsburgh, PA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 19, 2:25 PM EST, 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 19, 2:25 PM EST, 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 325 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007 .SYNOPSIS... COLD FRONT NOW CROSSING THE GREAT LAKES WILL CAUSE NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS INTO EARLY TONIGHT. SOME MAY BE SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL. NORTHWEST WINDS BEHIND THE COLD FRONT WILL CAUSE TEMPERATURES TO BE CLOSE TO SEASONAL LEVELS INTO THE WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING/... SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCHES 418 AND 420 FOR ALL OF THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY (WFO PITTSBURGH COUNTY WARNING AREA (PBZ CWA)) THROUGH EARLY TONIGHT. RADAR DATA SHOWS BANDS OF THUNDERSTORMS TO BE MOVING THROUGH THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY INTO EARLY TONIGHT. MAIN THREAT STILL APPEARS TO BE DAMAGING WIND. LARGE HAIL WILL BE THE SECOND THREAT. AFTER COLD FRONTAL PASSAGE, THERE CAN BE SCATTERED SHOWERS LATE TONIGHT WITH FOG PATCHES DEVELOPING OVER THE RECENTLY WETTED GROUNDS. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM WEDNESDAY MORNING THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT/... AFTER COOL FRONTAL PASSAGE TONIGHT, PRECIPITATION POTENTIAL WILL BE RAPIDLY DECREASING. WITH SURFACE DEW POINTS ALSO DECREASING, FOG FORMATION WILL BE LIMITED, DESPITE WETTED GROUNDS FROM THUNDERSTORM RAINS INTO EARLY TONIGHT. WITH UPPER JETSTREAM FLOW BECOMING NORTHWEST, EXPECTING DRYING CONDITIONS AND NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES AS INDICATED BY NAM AND GFS MOS VALUES. && .LONG TERM /FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... FOR THE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK...UPPER LEVEL RIDGING ACROSS MID-AMERICA, WILL MAINTAIN NORTHWEST FLOW ACROSS THE UPPER OHIO VALLEY. THIS WILL MAINTAIN GENERALLY DRY CONDITIONS WITH NEAR NORMAL TEMPERATURES, AS INDICATED HPC AND GFS MOS VALUES. HAVE INCLUDED A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY, AS SUPPORTED BY SEVERAL GFS ENSEMBLE MEMBER MODEL RUNS, SUGGESTING A PERIOD OF ORGANIZED LIFT WITH AN UPPER-LEVEL SHORT-WAVE PASSAGE SATURDAY. && .AVIATION /20Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... EXPECT MOST DEVIATION IN FLIGHT CONDITIONS TO IFR TO BE WITH THUNDERSTORMS INTO EARLY TONIGHT. WINDS CAN ALSO GUST ABOVE 25 KTS AS VERTICAL MIXING INCREASES IN VICINITY OF THUNDERSTORMS. OF COURSE, ALONG THE LEADING EDGE OF THUNDERSTORMS, WIND GUSTS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO EXCEED 50 KTS. HAIL ALSO POSSIBLE. AFTER THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH THIS EVENING, FLIGHT CONDITIONS WILL MAINLY VFR INTO THE WEEKEND. ALBEIT, FOG FORMATION COULD LEAD TO ISOLATED IFR PATCHES EARLY WEDNESDAY. PASSING THUNDERSTORMS LATE THURSDAY AND LATE SATURDAY COULD RESULT IN SHORT-LIVED IFR/MVFR CONDITIONS. && .PBZ WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... MD...NONE. OH...NONE. PA...NONE. WV...NONE. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 19, 2:04 PM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 304 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007 OHZ039>041-048>050-057-058-PAZ007>009-013>016-020-022-WVZ001-201915- TUSCARAWAS-CARROLL-COLUMBIANA-COSHOCTON-HARRISON-JEFFERSON OH- MUSKINGUM-GUERNSEY-MERCER-VENANGO-FOREST-LAWRENCE-BUTLER-CLARION- JEFFERSON PA-BEAVER-ARMSTRONG-HANCOCK- 304 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 418 IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. MDZ001-OHZ059-068-069-PAZ021-023-029>032-WVZ002>004-012-021>023-041- 201915- GARRETT-BELMONT-NOBLE-MONROE-ALLEGHENY-INDIANA-WASHINGTON- WESTMORELAND-GREENE-FAYETTE-BROOKE-OHIO-MARSHALL-WETZEL-MARION- MONONGALIA-PRESTON-TUCKER- 304 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 420 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN MARYLAND...EAST CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA...NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA AND NORTHERN PANHANDLE OF WEST VIRGINIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 19, 12:49 PM EST, 2 hours 31 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA 149 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007 OHZ039>041-049-050-059-PAZ007-008-013>016-020>023-029-030-WVZ001>004- 191845- ALLEGHENY PA-ARMSTRONG PA-BEAVER PA-BELMONT OH-BROOKE WV-BUTLER PA-CARROLL OH-CLARION PA-COLUMBIANA OH-HANCOCK WV-HARRISON OH-INDIANA PA-JEFFERSON PA-JEFFERSON OH-LAWRENCE PA-MARSHALL WV-MERCER PA-OHIO WV-TUSCARAWAS OH-VENANGO PA-WASHINGTON PA-WESTMORELAND PA- 149 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007 ...THUNDERSTORMS... THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MOVING ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON. THE MOST ACTIVE STORMS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WERE IN MERCER COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA AND COLUMBIANA AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES IN OHIO. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST ABOUT 25 MPH. BE ALERT FOR BRIEF HEAVY RAIN, SMALL HAIL, DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS. ALSO, WARNINGS COULD BE ISSUED IF THESE STORMS INTENSIFY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FOR PARTS OF THE REGION. PLEASE REPORT HAIL...STRONG WINDS OR WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BY CALLING TOLL FREE...1-877-633-6772.
Local storm report, Jun 19, 2:24 PM EST, 56 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PITTSBURGH PA
324 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0258 PM TSTM WND DMG STONEBORO 41.34N 80.11W
06/19/2007 MERCER PA PUBLIC
LARGE TREE BRANCHS BROKEN.
0310 PM TSTM WND DMG HERMITAGE 41.23N 80.44W
06/19/2007 MERCER PA LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN.
&&The radar
The Pittsburgh radar (KPBZ), 130 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:22 UTC.
Event by event
6 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Muskingum
- When
- June 19, 3:40 PM EST
- Where
- Muskingum County, 8 mi E of Zanesville
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 39.950, -81.869
Trees reported down in the area.
Thunderstorm Wind, Harrison
- When
- June 19, 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Harrison County, Freeport
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 40.200, -81.270
EMA reported power lines down in Freeport area.
Thunderstorm Wind, Harrison
- When
- June 19, 4:45 PM EST
- Where
- Harrison County, Freeport
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 40.200, -81.270
EMA reports additional trees down in the Freeport area.
Thunderstorm Wind, Jefferson
- When
- June 19, 4:55 PM EST
- Where
- Jefferson County, Mingo Jct
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 40.320, -80.620
EMA reports numerous trees down along Commercial Avenue near Mingo Junction.
Thunderstorm Wind, Belmont
- When
- June 19, 5:18 PM EST
- Where
- Belmont County, 3 mi S of Bethesda
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 39.977, -81.070
EMA reported trees down South of the Town of Bethesda.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 37897, 37896, 37898, 37899, 37900, 37901.