Slow moving thunderstorms resulted in heavy rainfall and isolated flash flooding in portions of southeastern Indiana during the evening hours.
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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 ILN wrote it up.
Slow moving thunderstorms resulted in heavy rainfall and isolated flash flooding in portions of southeastern Indiana during the evening hours.
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 Jul 1, 7:56 PM EST, 2 hours 54 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 856 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2013 .SYNOPSIS... AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL SLOWLY SHIFT TO THE WEST OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS. THE REGION WILL CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FROM THIS FEATURE PRIMARILY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM TUESDAY MORNING/... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE FA THIS EVENING AND INTO THE FIRST PART OF THE OVERNIGHT HOURS BEFORE BEGINNING TO DISSIPATE. STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS SOME AREAS AND THEREFORE CONTINUED TO MENTION THIS TREAT IN THE HWO. MADE ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO LOW TEMPERATURES OVERNIGHT WITH LOW TEMPERATURES STILL GENERALLY IN THE LOW 60S. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM TUESDAY MORNING THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/... THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH WILL CONTINUE TO INFLUENCE THE WEATHER PATTERN ON TUESDAY WITH SCATTERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY INCREASING IN COVERAGE FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING HOURS. EXPECT COVERAGE TO BE SLIGHTLY LESS ON TUESDAY THAN ON MONDAY HOWEVER THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINFALL...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS. EXPECT THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO DECREASE DURING THE EVENING HOURS AND FOR THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. WITH SLIGHTLY LESS THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY EXPECT TEMPERATURES TO BE A LITTLE HIGHER ON TUESDAY. HIGHS WILL GENERALLY RANGE FROM THE MIDDLE 70S TO MIDDLE 80S. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... DEEP MERIDIONAL FLOW BETWEEN A TROUGH TO THE WEST AND A RIDGE TO THE EAST WILL KEEP OPEN A PIPELINE OF MOISTURE HEADING INTO THE REGION. VARIOUS NORTHWARD MOVING DISTURBANCES WILL RESULT IN A CONTINUATION OF UNSETTLED CONDITIONS ACROSS THE REGION. AT THIS POINT THE GREATEST COVERAGE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED THURSDAY. CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION WILL MAINTAIN HIGHS BELOW NORMAL THROUGH FRIDAY WITH LOWS REMAINING ABOVE NORMAL. AS MID CONTINENT TROUGH WEAKENS THE RIDGE WILL BUILD WEST INTO THE SOUTHEAST STATES. THERE WILL STILL BE DISTURBANCES ROTATING AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE HIGH WHICH WILL ALLOW FOR MAINLY DIURNAL CONVECTION ALTHOUGH THIS SHOULD BE MORE SCATTERED IN NATURE. HIGHS SHOULD BE ABLE TO WARM TO NEAR OR SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. WARM AND MUGGY NIGHTS WILL PREVAIL. && .AVIATION /01Z TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... A LARGE AREA OF LIGHT RAIN WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIFT NORTHWARD ACROSS THE OHIO RIVER AND MAY AFFECT THE TERMINALS FOR THE FIRST HALF THE NIGHT BEFORE THE AREA OF PRECIPITATION WEAKENS. A STRATUS DECK AFFECTING KDAY IS EXPECTED TO MOVE OUT OF THE AREA THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF STRATUS APPEARS LIKELY AROUND SUNRISE...MAINLY ACROSS OUR SOUTHWESTERN OHIO TERMINALS...CLOSER TO A SURFACE LOW. ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN ON TUESDAY...WITH THE HIGHEST COVERAGE BEING WEST OF THE INTERSTATE 75 CORRIDOR. OUTLOOK...THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...NOVAK NEAR TERM...NOVAK SHORT TERM...NOVAK LONG TERM... AVIATION...LATTO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 754 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2013 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-030000- 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- 754 PM EDT MON JUL 1 2013 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...TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT. HEAVY RAINFALL WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS AND MAY LEAD TO FLOODING ISSUES ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. UNDER THE CONTINUED INFLUENCE OF AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS CAN BE EXPECTED MAINLY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. WIDESPREAD SEVERE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED... HOWEVER A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS AND SMALL HAIL. HEAVY RAINFALL AND FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1031 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0607 PM FLASH FLOOD 5 N MARSHALL 39.22N 83.48W
07/01/2013 HIGHLAND OH PUBLIC
BLINCO CREEK WAS OVERFLOWING OUT OF ITS BANKS ONTO
OVERMAN ROAD. OVERMAN ROAD HAD WATER OVER IT IN SEVERAL
LOCATIONS. TIME OF EVENT ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.
0607 PM HAIL 5 N MARSHALL 39.22N 83.48W
07/01/2013 E1.75 INCH HIGHLAND OH PUBLIC
HAIL CAUSED SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE TO A BEAN FIELD NEAR
OVERMAN ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.
0608 PM FLASH FLOOD 3 WNW RAINSBORO 39.24N 83.48W
07/01/2013 HIGHLAND OH PUBLIC
WATER FLOWING OVER KARNES ROAD NEAR FALL CREEK CHURCH.
TIME OF EVENT ESTIMATED FROM RADAR.
0609 PM TSTM WND DMG 3 WNW RAINSBORO 39.24N 83.46W
07/01/2013 HIGHLAND OH PUBLIC
ONE TREE DOWNED ON KARNES ROAD. TIME ESTIMATED FROM
RADAR.
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HATZOSPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1107 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1105 PM FLASH FLOOD DELHI TOWNSHIP 39.10N 84.61W
07/01/2013 HAMILTON OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
A CREEK WAS REPORTED OUT OF ITS BANKS AND FLOODING
PORTIONS OF THE TOWNSHIP.
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ASLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1108 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1106 PM FLASH FLOOD CINCINNATI 39.14N 84.51W
07/01/2013 HAMILTON OH LAW ENFORCEMENT
DRAINAGE DITCHES WERE OVERFLOWING INTO STREETS IN THE
CITY.
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ASLPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1137 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1136 PM FLASH FLOOD COVINGTON 39.04N 84.51W
07/01/2013 KENTON KY LAW ENFORCEMENT
MULTIPLE ROADS CLOSED DUE TO HIGH WATER.
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ALANRPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1142 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1140 PM FLASH FLOOD NEWPORT 39.08N 84.49W
07/01/2013 CAMPBELL KY LAW ENFORCEMENT
ROADS CLOSED FROM 11TH AND MONMOUTH TO 18TH AND MONMOUTH
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ALANRPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
1144 PM EDT MON JUL 01 2013
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1115 PM FLASH FLOOD 1 NNE DOWNTOWN CINCINNA 39.12N 84.50W
07/01/2013 HAMILTON OH BROADCAST MEDIA
WATER FLOWING OVER ROADS IN MT. AUBURN.
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BCThe Louisville radar (KLVX), 117 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:47 UTC.
3 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Old Michigan Road was closed between County Road 800 south and Highway 421 due to rapidly flowing water caused by heavy rainfall.
A car was reported stalled on Highway 421 near the Ripley-Jefferson County Line due to the roadway being flooded by heavy rainfall.
A portion of County Road 900 was closed near Highway 421 due to rapidly flowing water caused by heavy rainfall.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Indiana in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Indiana, July 2013
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: 464203, 464201, 464202.