The remnants of hurricane Ike raced northeast through the midwest and merged with a frontal boundary across the lower Ohio Valley Sunday morning. Abundant sunshine promoted deep mixing of the atmosphere, and warm, dry air aloft translated down to the surface.
Every event with a place to put it; 12 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
The remnants of hurricane Ike raced northeast through the midwest and merged with a frontal boundary across the lower Ohio Valley Sunday morning. Abundant sunshine promoted deep mixing of the atmosphere, and warm, dry air aloft translated down to the surface. Gusty winds in excess of 70 mph persisted for a period of several hours, causing significant damage. Over 700,000 power outages occurred for Duke energy customers in the Cincinnati area, some taking over a week to be restored.
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 Sep 14, 12:53 PM EST, 7 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
153 PM EDT SUN SEP 14 2008
.SYNOPSIS...
THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE IKE WILL COMBINE WITH A FAST MOVING
COLD FRONT TO PRODUCE WINDY CONDITIONS AND SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS TODAY INTO TONIGHT. A FEW SHOWERS WILL LINGER ON
MONDAY...WITH COOLER AND DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED THROUGH THE
REMAINDER OF THE WEEK DUE TO HIGH PRESSURE.
&&
.NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/...
NUMEROUS OBSERVATIONS SOUTHWEST OF THE SURFACE LOW OVER THE LOWER
OHIO VALLEY HAVE REPORTED GUSTS AT OR ABOVE 50-KT...WITH A 71 MPH
WIND REPORT OUT OF JASPER INDIANA. SEVERAL REPORTS OF WIND DAMAGE
ACROSS SRN IN AND KY...AND HAVE BEGUN TO RECEIVE A FEW REPORTS OF
TREE DAMAGE ACROSS WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE ILN CWA. THEREFORE THE
WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN UPGRADED TO A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE
WESTERN HALF OF THE CWA WITH EXPECTED GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH. PREVIOUS
AFD FOLLOWS....
DEEP MIXING IS ALSO BRINGING SOME DRIER AIR TO THE SURFACE WITH
DEWPOINTS DROPPING INTO THE MID TO LOW 60S ACROSS OHIO AND
KENTUCKY. THIS MAY PLACE SERIOUS LIMITATIONS ON INSTBY LATER TODAY
AS THE STRONG SFC LOW AND TRAILING COLD FRONT MOVE IN. THIS
SITUATION WILL BE WATCHED CLOSELY...AS VERY STRONG LOW LEVEL WIND
FIELDS WILL CREATE THE POTENTIAL FOR SEVERE WIND GUSTS IN ANY
STORMS THAT DEVELOP...AND POSSIBLY ISOLATED TORNADOES GIVEN THE
EXTREME 0-1 KM HELICITY. HOWEVER...THINK THE OVERALL TORNADO
THREAT IS DIMINISHING WITH DRIER AIR YIELDING HIGHER LCL
HEIGHTS...WHICH WILL REALLY RESTRICT LOW-LEVEL INSTBY AND INCREASE
THE POTENTIAL FOR DRY AIR ENTRAINMENT TO KILL ANY UPDRAFT WHICH
CAN TRY TO DEVELOP. MODELS INDICATE WARM AIR ALOFT MAY FURTHER
RESTRICT INSTABILITY. A SPECIAL 18Z SOUNDING WILL BE RELEASED TO
BETTER ASSESS THE INSTABILITY AND SEVERE THREAT THIS AFTERNOON.
GIVEN THE LIMITED CAPE...DECIDED TO DROP POPS APPRECIABLY THIS
AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT SINCE MODELS NO LONGER DEPICT WIDESPREAD
PRECIP COVERAGE ALONG THE FRONT.
&&
.SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH TUESDAY/...
SFC COLD FRONT WL SHIFT THRU EASTERN FA EARLY THIS EVENING AS
DEEP SFC LOW ACCELERATES NE INTO SE CANADA. THREAT FOR THUNDERSTORMS
AND SVR-WX POTENTIAL WL END EARLY THIS EVENING. ALSO..SFC GRADIENT
DROPS OFF QUICKLY AND WIND ADVSY MAY NEED TO BE CANCELED EARLY.
HAVE LINGERED A CHC OF SHOWERS TONIGHT INTO EARLY MONDAY WITH
WITH UPPER TROF LAGGING. HAVE TRENDED TNGTS LOWS ON THE WARM
SIDE OF GUID ENVELOPE AND AT OR A LTL BELOW MAV NUMBERS MONDAY.
SFC HIGH PRESSURE NOSES IN MON NIGHT INTO TUE PROVIDING DRY WX AND
SEASONABLY COOL TEMPS. HAVE TRENDED TEMPS AT OR A LTL BLO MAV
GUID MON NIGHT AND TUE.
&&
.LONG TERM /TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/...
RATHER QUIET PRE-AUTUMNAL WEATHER EXPECTED THROUGH THE LONG TERM.
HIGH PRESSURE WILL BE PREDOMINANT FEATURE ALTHOUGH A WEAK BACK
DOOR FRONT MAY WORK INTO THE REGION LATE IN THE WEEK. DRY
CONDITIONS ARE FORECAST WITH TEMPERATURES WITHIN A COUPLE OF
DEGREES OF NORMAL.
&&
.AVIATION /18Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/...
VERY STRONG WINDS...POSSIBLY GUSTING TO 50-KT...WILL CONTINUE THIS
AFTERNOON AS THE REMNANT LOW FROM HURRICANE IKE RACES UP A FRONTAL
BOUNDARY FROM CENTRAL INDIANA INTO NORTHEAST OHIO THROUGH THIS
EVENING. STRONGEST GUSTS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS THE KCVG-KDAY
CORRIDOR THROUGH 22Z. ATMOSPHERE IS MORE STABLE THAN PREVIOUSLY
EXPECTED...SO REMOVED MENTION OF ANY CONVECTION AT ALL TAF
SITES...BUT INCLUDED VCSH TO KDAY AND KCMH TERMINALS WITH PRECIP
NEAR THE LOW CENTER SKIRTING THESE AREAS TO THE NORTH. GUSTS WILL
SUBSIDE THIS EVENING AS A COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH...WHILE THICKER
LOW LEVEL MOISTURE CAUSES CIGS TO DROP INTO MVFR. MODEL SOUNDINGS
FORECAST IFR CIGS OVERNIGHT...BUT NOT SEEING ANY CIGS THIS LOW
UPSTREAM SO WILL KEEP CLOUD BASES MVFR FOR NOW.
OUTLOOK...NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER IS EXPECTED.
&&
.ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
OH...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR OHZ026-034-
035-042>044-051>053-060>062-070>072-077-078.
WIND ADVISORY FROM 6 PM TO 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR OHZ026-
034-035-042>044-051>053-060>062-070>072-077-078.
WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR OHZ045-046-
054>056-063>065-073-074-079>082-088.
KY...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR KYZ089>096.
WIND ADVISORY FROM 6 PM TO 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR
KYZ089>096.
WIND ADVISORY UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR KYZ097>100.
IN...HIGH WIND WARNING UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON FOR INZ050-058-
059-066-073>075-080.
WIND ADVISORY FROM 6 PM TO 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR INZ050-
058-059-066-073>075-080.
&&
SYNOPSIS...AR
NEAR TERM...HAWBLITZEL
SHORT TERM...AR
LONG TERM...
AVIATION...HAWBLITZELHAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 100 PM EDT SUN SEP 14 2008 KYZ097>100-OHZ045-046-054>056-063>065-073-074-079>082-088-151000- BRACKEN-ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH- LICKING-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-ROSS-HOCKING-BROWN-HIGHLAND- ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO- 100 PM EDT SUN SEP 14 2008 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO. .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. WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>096-OHZ026-034-035-042>044- 051>053-060>062-070>072-077-078-151000- WAYNE-FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO- SWITZERLAND-CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT- PENDLETON-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN- CLARK-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-HAMILTON- CLERMONT- 100 PM EDT SUN SEP 14 2008 ...HIGH WIND WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 6 PM EDT THIS AFTERNOON... ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM TO 9 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .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. HIGH WIND WARNING. WIND ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY WIND DAMAGE TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
120 PM EDT SUN SEP 14 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0117 PM NON-TSTM WND GST GREENVILLE 40.10N 84.62W
09/14/2008 M49 MPH DARKE OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
TREES DOWN ALONG WITH POWER LINES.
&&
MIKEGThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
12 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
Strong winds of 40 to 50 miles per hour were sustained for several hours. Gusts over 60 mph were common. Widespread damage occurred across the region, from trees being blown down on powerlines to significant structural damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Kentucky in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Kentucky, September 2008
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: 134346, 134349, 134339, 134336, 134337, 134344, 134351, 134338, 134345, 134350, 134348, 134347.