Scattered thunderstorms developed across northwest Ohio during the evening on June 23rd as instability increased across the area. Dry air in the mid-levels contributed to a threat for strong downburst winds.
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Scattered thunderstorms developed across northwest Ohio during the evening on June 23rd as instability increased across the area. Dry air in the mid-levels contributed to a threat for strong downburst winds. A few of the thunderstorms became severe with damaging wind gusts across Lucas and Wood Counties. Numerous trees and tree limbs were downed across Maumee and Bowling Green with two trees falling on a house south of Portage in Wood County.
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 Cleveland, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 22, 6:00 PM EST, 5 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 700 PM EDT SAT JUN 22 2013 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE WESTERN ATLANTIC WILL CONTINUE TO EXTEND OVER THE MID ATLANTIC COAST INTO THE TENNESSEE AND LOWER OHIO VALLEYS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. MEANWHILE LOW PRESSURE WILL REMAIN FROM THE CENTRAL ROCKIES TO THE NORTHERN PLAINS. THIS WILL FORCE A WARM MOIST SOUTHERLY FLOW ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SUNDAY/... CONTINUE TO SEE NEW THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NW 1/2 OF THE AREA. NUMEROUS OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES REMAIN FROM EARLIER CONVECTION SO IT IS TOUGH TO TELL WHERE THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT. EXPECT THE STORMS TO WEAKEN AS THEY MOVE MUCH OF EAST OF I-77. HAVE MADE THE CHANCE TO SCATTERED WORDING IN THE NEW FORECAST THAT JUST WENT OUT. HRRR RIGHT ON TRACK WITH DEVELOPMENT ACROSS SRN AND SWRN COUNTIES. MOST UNSTABLE AIR ACTUALLY ACROSS NWRN OHIO WITH MSAS LI'S 8- TO -9C WHILE CONVECTION FORMED IN CONVERGENCE ON THE THETA-E/ STABILITY GRADIENT. CURRENT CONVECTION IS MOVING SLOWLY EAST TOWARD MORE STABLE AIR WHERE DEWPOINTS ARE (ONLY) IN THE LOWER 60S. MEANWHILE KTOL AND KFDY ARE 90 OVER 68. GUIDANCE SHOWS THIS AREA BECOMING MORE ACTIVE IN THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS. WILL COVER CURRENT CONVECTION WITH CHANCE POPS AND WILL INCREASE POPS IN THE NORTHWEST FROM SLIGHT CHANCE TO CHANCE THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. ISOLATED SEVERE IS POSSIBLE. FORECAST SOUNDINGS SHOW DRY AIR ALOFT THAT WOULD CONTRIBUTE TO DOWNBURST ENERGY...ESPECIALLY IN TALL CORES. AFTER ABOUT 02Z WILL BEGIN TO DROP POPS BACK FROM CHANCE TO SLIGHT CHANCE NORTHWEST AND DROP POPS COMPLETELY SOUTH AND SW COUNTIES. RAISED OVERNIGHT LOWS A DEGREE OR TWO FROM MAV GUIDANCE. && .SHORT TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT/... LOOKING AT NAM/GFS/SREF MODELS...NOT A LOT CHANGES FOR NORTHERN OHIO AND NWRN PA FROM SATURDAY TO SUNDAY WITH A CONTINUED MOIST UNSTABLE SOUTHWESTERLY FLOW ACROSS THE REGION. MODELS INDICATING AN AXIS OF RELATIVE INSTABILITY AND LIFT FROM THE NORTHEAST LAKESHORE SW TOWARD MNN/FDY AREA ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON. WILL TAKE THE HINT AND GO WITH LOW CHANCE POPS ON THAT AXIS FOR THE AFTERNOON HOURS. EXPECTING DIURNAL TRENDS TO TAKE OVER AND COVERAGE TO DEGREASE THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING SO WILL DROP POPS BACK TO SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THE EVENING AND NIL AFTER MIDNIGHT. OF COURSE THAT COULD CHANGE IF AN MCS DECIDES TO TRACK OUR WAY. MONDAY AFTERNOON THE NAM AND SREF SHOW A WAVE OF MOISTURE MOVING IN. THIS COMBINED WITH AFTERNOON HEAT WOULD BE A POTENTIAL TRIGGER SO WILL HAVE CHANCE POPS IN FOR THE AFTERNOON MONDAY. MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT MODELS INDICATING MCS DEVELOPMENT TO OUR NORTHWEST. THICKNESS PACKING SUGGESTS MOVEMENT WOULD BE SE INTO THE REGION SO WILL HAVE CHANCE POPS FOR THE DURATION. TEMPS ABOVE NORMAL. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY/... WEDNESDAY WILL BE THE BEGINNING OF A TRANSITION FROM THE EAST COAST RIDGE TO A LONGWAVE TROUGH. THIS WILL BRING IN BETTER CHANCES OF SHOWERS/TS THAN THE FIRST HALF OF THE WEEK. LIKELY A COMPLEX FRONTAL STRUCTURE WITH CONVECTION UPSTREAM EARLIER...BUT MODELS SHOWING SIGNS OF A WARM FRONT WEDNESDAY FOLLOWED BY A COLD FRONT THURSDAY AND A RE-ENFORCING FRONT FRIDAY. WILL KEEP PRECIP CHANCES AT 40 OR 50 PERCENT FOR NOW AS THIS IS A BROAD WINDOW FOR PRECIPITATION CHANCES. WILL VERY WELL GET SEVERAL ROUNDS ACTIVE WEATHER. TEMPERATURES START OFF WARM...STILL AROUND 90 FOR MOST PLACES...BUT WITH THE RIDGE BEGINNING TO BREAK DOWN...WILL HAVE A GRADUAL COOLING TREND GOING INTO THE WEEKEND. && .AVIATION /00Z SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... SCT TSRA WILL BECOME LESS NUMEROUS AS AIRMASS COOLS NEXT FEW HOURS. OVERALL THREAT SO LOW FOR TSRA HITTING A GIVEN TAF SITE NEXT 24 HOURS WILL NOT MENTION EXCEPT FOR CELLS THAT LOOK IMMINENT NEXT HOUR OR TWO THIS EVENING. INCREASED HUMIDITY WILL LIKELY LEAD TO A FEW HOURS OF 5SM OR 6SM BR/HZ EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. SUNDAY SHOULD BE LIKE TODAY WITH MIDDAY CU AROUND 5-6K AND BKN/OVC CIRRUS FROM ANY UPSTREAM COMPLEXES. .OUTLOOK...NON-VFR IN ISOLATED SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS AND EARLY MORNING BR/HZ SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. && .MARINE... LAKE ERIE ON THE PERIPHERY OF AN EXPANSIVE HIGH OVER THE EAST COAST THAT WILL REMAIN IN PLACE THROUGH MID WEEK. THIS WILL KEEP A SOUTHWEST FLOW ON THE LAKE WITH WIND SPEEDS OF 15 KNOTS OR LESS. DAILY THUNDERSTORM CHANCES REMAIN ON THE LAKE...BUT WILL INCREASE GOING TOWARD MID WEEK AS THE HIGH WEAKENS AND AN UPSTREAM LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM/COLD FRONT MOVES INTO THE WESTERN LAKES. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...TK NEAR TERM...TK/KUBINA SHORT TERM...TK LONG TERM...OUDEMAN AVIATION...ADAMS MARINE...OUDEMAN
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 448 AM EDT SAT JUN 22 2013 LEZ061-142>149-162>169-OHZ003-006>014-017>023-027>033-036>038-047- 089-PAZ001>003-230900- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO BUFFALO NY- MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH OH-RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS OH- THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION OH-VERMILION TO AVON POINT OH- AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK OH-WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE LAKE OH-GENEVA- ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT OH-CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM MAUMEE BAY TO RENO BEACH- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM RENO BEACH TO THE ISLANDS- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM THE ISLANDS TO VERMILION- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM VERMILION TO AVON POINT- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM AVON POINT TO WILLOWICK- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM WILLOWICK TO GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE TO CONNEAUT- LAKE ERIE OPEN WATERS FROM CONNEAUT OH TO RIPLEY NY-LUCAS-WOOD- OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA-ASHTABULA INLAND- HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON-MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD- RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING-MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX- ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA- 448 AM EDT SAT JUN 22 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE...NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .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 Detroit radar (KDTX), 127 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:04 UTC.
4 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The media relayed reports of downed trees and limbs in Maumee with power lines causing road closures to Ford Street and through the downtown area.
Law enforcement and media reported multiple trees and power lines down in Weston with some trees falling on houses.
Members of the public estimated wind gusts in excess of 70 mph west of Bowling Green. Many trees were downed from strong thunderstorm winds throughout Bowling Green and south to Portage. At least two of the trees fell on homes.
The public reported trees uprooted in Cygnet.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Ohio in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, June 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: 458415, 458414, 458452, 458464.