A broken squall line ahead of a cold front moved across eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and northern West Virginia during the afternoon producing multiple reports of straight line wind damge. At one point more than 50 thousand homes were without power due to power lines being down across the region.
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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 PBZ wrote it up.
A broken squall line ahead of a cold front moved across eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and northern West Virginia during the afternoon producing multiple reports of straight line wind damge. At one point more than 50 thousand homes were without power due to power lines being down across the region.
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 Oct 26, 1:29 PM EST, 31 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 163 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 18:59 UTC.
7 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Law enforcement reported trees and power lines down countywide.
Law enforcement reported numerous trees and power poles down around Coshocton.
Emergency management reported numerous trees down in Cambridge.
Law enforcement reported numerous trees down throughout the county.
Law enforcement reported a large tree down blocking traffic across SR 9 in Kilgore.
Emergency management reported a large tree down across a road in Hanoverton.
Emergency management reported numerous trees down across the southrn half of the county.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, October 2010
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 260619, 260621, 260622, 260624, 260625, 260626, 260627.