Widely scattered strong to severe thunderstorms developed across Ohio during the afternoon.
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The episode as NWS ILN wrote it up.
Widely scattered strong to severe thunderstorms developed across Ohio during the afternoon.
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 Jun 2, 10:38 AM EST, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 1138 AM EDT SAT JUN 2 2007 .SYNOPSIS... A WARM HUMID AIRMASS WILL REMAIN ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY THIS WEEKEND. A COLD FRONT OVER WILL PUSH INTO THE ILLINOIS LATER TODAY...THEN INTO OHIO BY SUNDAY NIGHT. THE FRONT WILL ACT AS A FOCUS FOR MORE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH 6 PM THIS EVENING/... SKIES WERE MSTLY CLR THIS MRNG AS FCST AREA BECMG INCREASINGLY SQUEEZED BY CLOUD SHIELD ASSOCD WITH BARRY FROM THE SE AND COLD FRONT OVER MID MISSISSIPPI VLY. CURRENT RUC INDCG NICE AXIS OF VERY DRY AIR EVIDENCE OF UPR LVL SUBSIDENCE ON EDGE OF CLOUD SHIELD FROM BARRY. CU FIELD HAD QUICKLY DVLPD NORTHWEST OF DAYTON...WITH CONVECTIVE DVLPMNT OVER WAYNE CO INDIANA. TEMPS HAD ALREADY WARMED INTO THE 80S IN MANY LOCATIONS THIS MRNG. A BIT OF A TRICKY POP FCST FOR THE AFTN. LACK OF ANY MAJOR FORCING WOULD AGAIN SUGGEST CONVECTIVE DVLPMNT WILL BE DRIVEN BY AVAIL INSTABILITY AND MESOSCALE PROCESSES (OUTFLOW BNDRIES). CURRENT LAPS SOUNDINGS INDCG MUCH OF FCST AREA ALREADY AT 1000-1500 J/KG MUCAPES WITH INTENSE HEATING THIS MRNG. HOWEVER...QUESTIONS STILL REMAIN AS TO HOW MUCH/HOW LONG UPR LVL SUBSIDENCE WILL INHIBIT CONVECTIVE DVLPMNT. RUC INDCG SUBSIDENCE DECREASES THIS AFTN AS UPR LVL MOISTURE LIFTS NORTH INTO REGION. AT THIS POINT...APPEARS BEST CHANCES FOR TSTMS WILL BE ACRS NW FCST AREA WHERE CURRENT ACTIVITY MAY BE FIRING OFF OF A LEFTOVER BNDRY FROM FRI AFTN/EVNG CONVECTION. INFLUENCE OF UPR LVL SUBSIDENCE IS ALSO LESS IN THESE AREAS. FURTHER SOUTH AND EAST...EXPECT SUBSIDENCE WILL KEEP A LID ON CONVECTION FOR NEXT FEW HOURS...WITH ISOLD/WDLY SCT CONVECTION DVLP AS AFTN PROGRESSES THROUGHOUT FCST AREA. HAVE INCREASED TO 30 POPS OVER NW FCST AREA AND HELD AT 20 OVER REMAINDER OF AREA. WILL MONITOR CONVECTIVE TRENDS THIS AFTN TO DETERMINE IF ANY ADDL UPDATES TO POP FCST WOULD BE NEEDED. TWEAKED SKY/TEMP GRIDS SLIGHTLY FOR AFTN HOURS...BUT OVERALL REMAINDER OF FCST LOOKED TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE. OF THE THREE METROS...APPEARS THAT KCVG AND KCMH HAS THE BEST SHOT TO REACH 90 DEG THIS AFTN. BOTH SITES HAVE BEEN AWFULLY CLOSE THE LAST FEW DAYS. ZONE AND GRID UPDATES WILL BE OUT MOMENTARILY. RYAN && .SHORT TERM /THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY/... AS BARRY PULLS UP THE EAST COAST THE UPPER LOW AND CDFNT WILL MOVE E. PCPN CHANCE SHOULD INCREASE FROM W TO E OVERNIGHT. FEEL THAT THE LIKELY POPS FROM THE MAV MOS FOR TNGT ARE TOO HI. CHC POPS SEEM MORE APPROPRIATE. UPPER LOW PUSHES THRU THE LAKES AND A CDFNT INTO THE OH VLY ON SUNDAY. INCREASED POPS TO LIKELY FOR SUNDAY. THIS IS A LITTLE BELOW THE MAV MOS. WASNT CONFIDENT THAT THE COVERAGE WOULD BE HIGH ENUF TO MATCH THE CATEGORICAL POPS THAT IT WAS GIVING ME. PCPN SHOULD DIE DOWN SUN NGT...BUT THEN ANOTHER SPOKE OF ENERGY SWINGS ACROSS THE REGION ON MONDAY. WENT LIKELY AGAIN ON SUNDAY. UPPER LOW BEGIN TO PULL N ON TUE. A LITTLE DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR WORKS INTO THE REGION. DRIED OUT TUE. WENT WITH THE WARMER MAV MOS HIGHS TODAY. WITH THE CLOUDS AND PCPN WORKING IN TONIGHT FELT DECIDED TO LEAN TOWARDS THE WARMER FWC MOS FOR LOWS. MAV MOS LOOKED REASONABLE AGAIN FOR HIGH ON SUNDAY...BUT TOO COOL AGAIN SUN NGT. WENT WITH FWC MINS AGAIN SUNDAY NIGHT. FINALLY SAW NO REASON TO DEVIATE FRO GFS MOS HIGH FOR MONDAY. SITES && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... NO CHANGES TO PREVIOUS FORECAST. && .AVIATION /16Z SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... INSTABILITY WILL INCREASE QUICKLY TODAY...WITH SCT-BKN CU FIELDS AOA 5KFT EXPECTED BY THE AFTERNOON. APPROACHING UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL ADD BROAD UPWARD LIFT TO SOME FEW SPOTS THAT WOULD ALREADY BE SEEING SOME INSTABILITY SHOWERS...HELPING THEM TO PERSIST A LITTLE LONGER THAN THEY HAVE BEEN FOR THE PAST FEW DAYS. THEY SHOULD ALSO COVER SLIGHTLY MORE AERIAL COVERAGE THIS AFTERNOON THAN YESTERDAY AND THE DAY BEFORE...STILL REMAINING SCATTERED AT BEST. MORNING HZ/BR SHOULD MIX OUT BY THE AFTERNOON. COULD NOT INDICATE WHERE THUNDERSTORMS WOULD BE MORE FAVORABLE TODAY WITH UNSTABLE AIR TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST AND LARGE UPWARD MOTION APPROACHING FROM THE WEST. HANDLED THIS WITH VISCINITY SHOWERS IN THE WEST AND A BRIEF SHOT OF RAIN TOWARDS THE LATE AFTERNOON IN CENTRAL OH. TAIL END OF FCST HAS BETTER CHANCES FOR RAIN TO DEVELOP...ESP AS SFC LOW PRESSURE TRACKS TOWARDS OHVLY. NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED OUTSIDE OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. FRANKS && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 510 AM EDT SAT JUN 2 2007 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-030915- 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- 510 AM EDT SAT JUN 2 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...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 16:40 UTC.
4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees and power lines were knocked down.
A few trees were snapped in half.
Several trees were also knocked down across the southeast part of the county.
One tree and large limbs were downed.
A man and his two sons were standing underneath a tree when it was struck by lightning at the Troy Strawberry Festival. The three individuals suffered non life-threatening injuries.
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, June 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: 36180, 36175, 36181, 36176, 36177, 36178, 36179, 36182.