A cold front passed over the Ohio Valley during the overnight hours of the 15th. Some bowing segments persisted through the afternoon of the 16th.
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The episode as NWS ILN wrote it up.
A cold front passed over the Ohio Valley during the overnight hours of the 15th. Some bowing segments persisted through the afternoon of the 16th.
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 15, 6:32 PM EST, 58 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 732 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2008 .SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH FROM THE CENTRAL PLAINS TONIGHT AND PUSH THROUGH THE CENTRAL OHIO VALLEY ON MONDAY...BRINGING A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN BUILD IN FROM THE WEST THROUGH MIDWEEK. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM MONDAY MORNING/... BIG QUESTION IS PLACEMENT AND TIMING OF DEVELOPMENT OF MCS OVERNIGHT. RUC MEAN STEERING WIND PUTS ACTIVITY OVER CENTAL AND NRN IL INTO OUR WESTERN FA BETWEEN 00Z AND 03Z....AND FULLY INTO MUCH OF NORTHERN HALF BY 06Z. WHILE MOVEMENT PUTS CENTER OF COMPLEX INTO NORTHERN HALF...AM CONCERNED ABOUT BETTER MOISTURE POOL IN THE SOUTH PERHAPS RAISING POTENTIAL FOR DEVELOPMENT INTO THIS AREA...WITH GREATER POTENTIAL FOR STEEPENING LAPSE RATES. MAY NEED UPDATE BY MID EVENING FOR THIS AREA TO RAISE PRECIP POTENTIAL AS A COUPLE MORE HOURS OF MESO ANALYSIS. WHILE THIS AFTERNOON HAS SEEN INCREASING DEWPOINTS...18Z KILN SOUNDING STILL SHOWING PRETTY DRY AIR IN LOWER LEVELS. BIGGEST CONCERN IS BOWING SEGMENTS WITH WIND POTENTIAL LATER THIS EVENING AND OVERNIGHT. HAVE NOT ISSUED FORECAST YET...SO WILL BE ISSUING WITH NEW WATCH. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/... FRONTAL SYSTEM STRADDLING AREA EARLY MONDAY AND SLOW TO PROGRESS...KEEPING CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND POSSIBLE THUNDERSTORMS. THEN COOLER AND DRIER AIRMASS MOVES INTO AREA. DID LINGER CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN THE FAR NORTH FOR TUESDAY AND INTO TUE NIGHT CLOSED LOW SKIRTING GREAT LAKES BEFORE ESTABLISHING ITSELF OVER EASTERN ONTARIO. HAVE GENERALLY GONE NEAR TO SLIGHTLY BELOW MOS GUIDANCE FOR TEMPS. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... HAVE USED A BLEND OF THE GFS ENSEMBLE MEAN AND HPC GUIDANCE FOR THE EXTENDED FORECAST PERIOD. PESKY UPR LVL LOW WILL BE NEAR SE QUEBEC/NRN NEW ENGLAND ON WEDNESDAY. OUR FORECAST AREA WILL REMAIN IN A NWLY FLOW ALOFT ON THE BACK SIDE OF THIS LOW. WEAK EMBEDDED S/WV ENERGY IS STILL ADVERTISED TO RIPPLE THROUGH THE GREAT LAKES REGION...BUT IT IT STILL UNCERTAIN AT THIS TIME HOW MUCH IT WILL HAVE AN AFFECT ON CHC/S FOR PCPN. HAVE KEPT SLIGHT CHC AFTN/EVENING POPS FOR ROUGHLY THE NE HALF CWFA WHERE THE BEST CHC FOR A POP UP SHOWER MAY OCCUR. TEMPS WILL REMAIN BELOW NORMAL FOR MID JUNE. UPR LVL LOW WILL FINALLY PIVOT AWAY FAR ENOUGH TO THE NE ON THURSDAY TO ALLOW SFC HIGH PRESSURE TO BUILD IN ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY. TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO MODERATE SOME AS A RESULT. UNCERTAINTY INCREASES FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AS OPERATIONAL MODELS ARE HAVING A DIFFICULT TIME HANDLING A SYSTEM MOVING SOUTHEAST OUT OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS PARTLY DUE TO CONVECTIVE FEEDBACK ISSUES. AT THIS POINT IT APPEARS THAT THIS SYSTEM WILL MOVE ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF THE OHIO RIVER FRIDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. HAVE PLACED 30 POPS IN THE FORECAST FOR FRIDAY/FRIDAY NIGHT TIME FRAME...WITH A LINGERING 20 POPS FOR SATURDAY. NEXT SUNDAY IS FORECAST TO BE DRY AT THIS POINT UNDER SFC HIGH PRESSURE. TEMPERATURES WILL AVERAGE AT OR SLIGHTLY BELOW NORMAL FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD. && .AVIATION /00Z MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... LINE OF CONVECTION OVER INDIANA IS TIMED INTO TAFS BETWEEN 01Z- 03Z. ALTHOUGH IT IS MOVING INTO LESS STABLE AIRMASS...IT SHOULD HOLD TOGETHER...ALTHOUGH MAYBE NOT AT ITS CURRENT STRENGTH. NRN TAFS HAS A BETTER CHC OF TSTM...BUT STILL PUT TEMPO TSTM AT KCVG/KLUK. RIGHT NOW LIMITED THE DURATION TO 2 HRS IN THE N AND AN HOUR IN THE S. AFT THAT LINE GOES THRU...WILL WAIT FOR CDFNT THAT WILL PUSH INTO THE REGION...WHICH WILL BE ABOUT 10Z. BROUGHT ANOTHER ROUND OF TSTM WITH THE CDFNT. KEPT THE TSTMS IN THE FCST THRU 15Z...THEN AS CDFNT PUSHES FAR SE BROUGHT THEM TO AN END.WINDS TURN TO THE NW BEHIND FNT FOR MON AFTN. OUTLOOK...NO SIG WX EXPECTED. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...JDR NEAR TERM...JDR SHORT TERM...JDR LONG TERM...HICKMAN AVIATION...SITES
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 427 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2008 INZ058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ045-046-054>056-060>065- 070>074-077>082-088-162030- FAYETTE IN-UNION IN-FRANKLIN IN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-SWITZERLAND- CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-PENDLETON-BRACKEN- ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-UNION OH-DELAWARE-MADISON-FRANKLIN OH-LICKING- PREBLE-MONTGOMERY-GREENE-FAYETTE OH-PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN- CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING-HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE- SCIOTO- 427 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...SOUTHEAST INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO...SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO AND SOUTHWEST OHIO. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. INZ050-OHZ026-034-035-042>044-051>053-162030- WAYNE-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN- CLARK- 427 PM EDT SUN JUN 15 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 543 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EAST CENTRAL INDIANA...MIAMI VALLEY OF OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...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...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED LATER THIS EVENING.
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 133 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:28 UTC.
13 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Trees were downed.
A portable toilet was knocked down and pieces of insulation were found strewn throughout the immediate area.
An eight-foot by ten-foot metal building was picked up and blown onto a parked automobile at a campground on the south shore of Grand Lake St. Marys.
A trailer was blown over.
Large tree limbs were downed across the northeast side of Troy. An amateur radio operator in Piqua measured a 54 mph gust four minutes earlier.
Large tree limbs were downed.
Large tree limbs were knocked down.
A fifteen-foot by twenty-foot carport was blown down.
Several trees were uprooted. A number of large twelve- to eighteen-inch limbs were also knocked down.
Several trees were downed.
Several trees were knocked down near the intersection of State Route 158 and Arlington Avenue.
Several trees were knocked down. One structure sustained roof damage.
Penny size hail was covering the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 110056, 103959, 103963, 103961, 104317, 103967, 103969, 103974, 103972, 103970, 104314, 104313, 104315, 104318, 104319, 104320, 104321, 104323, 104326, 104325, 104316, 104324.