Hail, Summit
- When
- June 30, 3:00 PM EST
- Where
- Summit County, Stow
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Social Media
- Coordinates
- 41.170, -81.430
Penny sized hail was observed.
Flood and Hail in Ohio, June 30, 2015
An area of low pressure moved east across the Lower Great Lakes on June 30th. A cold front trailing the low swept across northern Ohio causing showers and thunderstorms to develop.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $80,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS CLE wrote it up.
An area of low pressure moved east across the Lower Great Lakes on June 30th. A cold front trailing the low swept across northern Ohio causing showers and thunderstorms to develop. A few of the stronger storms produced hail.
What forecasters said that day
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 30, 12:58 PM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 30, 12:58 PM EST, 2 hours 2 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 158 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015 .SYNOPSIS... LOW PRESSURE AT THE SURFACE AND ALOFT OVER THE GREAT LAKES WILL SHIFT TO THE EAST ON WEDNESDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE CENTRAL GREAT LAKES ON THURSDAY AND LINGER INTO THE WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/... ATMOSPHERE HAS BECOME MODERATELY UNSTABLE ACROSS THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTY WARNING AREA THIS AFTERNOON AS A SHORTWAVE MOVES INTO THE REGION. SEEING A NICE SPIN ON RADAR EARLY THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EAST OF THIS FEATURE. HAVE INCREASED POPS ACROSS THE SOUTH TO CATEGORICAL LEVELS. FORTUNATELY THE SOUTHERN COUNTY WARNING AREA HAS THE LEAST AMOUNT OF RAINFALL OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DAYS SO THE THREAT OF FLOODING DEEMS MINIMAL. HOWEVER WE WILL STILL MONITOR THE REGION FOR ANY TRAINING OF ECHOES. && .SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT/... DRIER CONDITIONS WILL FINALLY RETURN FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE WEEK AS THE UPPER TROUGH AXIS SHIFTS TO THE EAST AND DRY NORTHWESTERLY FLOW SETS UP. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN A FEW DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. FOR TONIGHT...CLOUDS WILL LINGER IN THE EASTERN AREAS WITH SOME CLEARING ACROSS NW OHIO. COULD SEE SOME AREAS OF STRATUS DEVELOP IN THE AREAS THAT HAVE CLEARED. ANOTHER PIECE OF UPPER LEVEL ENERGY MOVES THROUGH THE CENTRAL GREAT LAKES OVERNIGHT. CAN NOT RULE OUT A STRAY SHOWER OVER LAKE ERIE...OR PUSHING INTO NE OHIO/NW PA ON WEDNESDAY. ELSEWHERE CHANCES OF SHOWERS ARE PRETTY LOW ON WEDNESDAY WITH STABLE CONDITIONS DEVELOPING AND REMOVED THE LOW CHANCE OF RAIN. ONE LAST PIECE OF UPPER LEVEL ENERGY SLIDES ACROSS THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN AT THE SURFACE BEHIND THIS FEATURE. LEFT AN ISOLATED SHOWER IN THE SOUTHEAST COUNTIES BUT THE AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO DRY OUT. MODELS HAVE TRENDED TOWARDS THE HIGH EXPANDING FARTHER TO THE SOUTH TO END THE WEEK WHICH SHOULD ALLOW FOR DRY CONDITIONS TO CONTINUE ON FRIDAY. TEMPERATURES WILL RECOVER TO THE MID 70S TO END THE WEEK ON FRIDAY WITH MOSTLY TO PARTLY SUNNY SKIES. && .LONG TERM /SATURDAY THROUGH MONDAY/... UPPER LEVEL PATTERN TRENDING TOWARD A CHANGE WHERE FLOW BECOMES MORE ZONAL WITH TIME.L SOME SMALL PERTURBATIONS WILL SLIP THROUGH THE MEAN FLOW BUT NO DEEP TROUGHINESS EXPECTED THROUGH THIS FORECAST PERIOD. UNFORTUNATELY...TOWARD THE END OF NEXT WEEK...MODELS SHAPING UP TO HEAD BACK INTO THE TROUGHINESS IN THE EAST AND LARGE AMPLIFICATION OF THE RIDGE TO THE WEST. IN THE MEAN TIME...MODELS ARE TRENDING TOWARD A DRIER SOLUTION OVER THE WEEKEND AND FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATIONS WILL NOT BE SPOILED BY RAIN. THE TREND IS PUSHING THE PRECIPITATION THREAT FURTHER SOUTH WITH TIME SO WILL BE DROPPING CHANCES FOR PRECIPITATION FOR SATURDAY. A SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE AREA ON SUNDAY AND COULD BRING SOME MORE MOISTURE BACK NORTH INTO THE AREA. WILL GO WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION FOR NOW SUNDAY AND UP POPS TO A CHANCE MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT. INCREASING THICKNESSES WILL TAKE PLACE AS WARM AIR ADVECTION TAKES SHAPE. THIS SHOULD HELP TEMPERATURES RISE BACK UP INTO THE LOWER 80S BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND FOR HIGHS AND LOWS IN THE 60S. && .AVIATION /18Z TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY/... CIGS WILL BEGIN TO SETTLE BACK TO MVFR IF NOT ALREADY AS AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND ISOLATED THUNDER MOVES EAST. THINGS WILL BEGIN TO GET MORE CONVECTIVE IN THE AFTERNOON ONCE THIS MAIN BATCH OF RAIN CLEARS THE AREA TO THE EAST. STILL POCKETS OF THUNDER ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS INITIAL BATCH OF RAIN. LATER THIS AFTERNOON A VORT MAX WILL RIP DOWN A SHORTWAVE TROUGH AXIS THAT STRETCHES ACROSS CENTRAL INDIANA CURRENTLY...EJECTING ACROSS SERN OHIO. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BEGIN TO FILL IN ACROSS THAT AREA...ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE HIGHER SB INSTABILITY PARAMETERS THERE. ELSEWHERE...VCTS POSSIBLE. MAIN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH AXIS MOVES THROUGH AROUND 06Z. UNTIL THEN VCTS/VCSH LIKELY. POST RAIN CIGS WILL LIFT SOME...WITH BRIEF HINTS OF CLEARING/VFR...BEFORE LOWERING AGAIN BEFORE DAYBREAK WEDNESDAY. WEDNESDAY CIGS WILL GRADUALLY RECOVER TO NEAR VFR BY 18Z. OUTLOOK...AREAS OF NON VFR WEDNESDAY MORNING...THEN MOSTLY VFR LIKELY THROUGH THE WEEKEND. && .MARINE... LAKE MAY GET RILED UP A BIT STARTING LATER TONIGHT AS WINDS INCREASE OUT OF THE WEST AT AROUND 15 KNOTS BY MORNING. THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE DAY ON WEDNESDAY AND THERE IS A SMALL CHANCE THAT SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED. WIND SPEEDS DIMINISH FOR THURSDAY BUT A BRIEF NORTHEAST BURST OF WINDS ARE EXPECTED THURSDAY NIGHT. ONCE AGAIN SMALL CRAFT ADVISORIES MAY BE NEEDED THEN. GENERALLY LIGHT AND VARIABLE WINDS EXPECTED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. && .CLE WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. PA...NONE. MARINE...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...KEC NEAR TERM...MULLEN SHORT TERM...KEC LONG TERM...LOMBARDY AVIATION...MAYERS MARINE...LOMBARDY
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 30, 12:07 PM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH 107 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015 OHZ020>023-029>033-036>038-047-011715- MEDINA-SUMMIT-PORTAGE-TRUMBULL-RICHLAND-ASHLAND-WAYNE-STARK-MAHONING- MARION-MORROW-HOLMES-KNOX- 107 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 371 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO AND NORTHEAST 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. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. OHZ003-006>014-017>019-027-028-089-PAZ001>003-011715- LUCAS-WOOD-OTTAWA-SANDUSKY-ERIE OH-LORAIN-CUYAHOGA-LAKE-GEAUGA- ASHTABULA INLAND-HANCOCK-SENECA-HURON-WYANDOT-CRAWFORD- ASHTABULA LAKESHORE-NORTHERN ERIE-SOUTHERN ERIE-CRAWFORD PA- 107 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL OHIO...NORTHEAST OHIO...NORTHWEST OHIO AND NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. LEZ061-142>149-162>169-011715- 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- 107 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR LAKE ERIE. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 30, 2:58 PM EST, 2 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
358 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015
OHZ021-022-302045-
SUMMIT-PORTAGE-
358 PM EDT TUE JUN 30 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL SUMMIT AND CENTRAL
PORTAGE COUNTIES...
AT 357 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER KENT...OR 7 MILES WEST
OF RAVENNA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
AKRON...RAVENNA...CUYAHOGA FALLS...KENT...HUDSON...TALLMADGE...
STREETSBORO...MOGADORE...GARRETTSVILLE...MANTUA...STOW...AURORA...
BRIMFIELD...MUNROE FALLS...SILVER LAKE...WINDHAM...HIRAM...BRADY LAKE
AND SUGAR BUSH KNOLLS.
LAT...LON 4103 8139 4117 8154 4135 8132 4134 8110
4125 8100 4122 8100
TIME...MOT...LOC 1957Z 230DEG 23KT 4116 8139
LAPLANTEThe radar
The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 45 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:00 UTC.
Event by event
4 hail, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Trumbull
- When
- June 30, 3:47 PM EST
- Where
- Trumbull County, Mc Donald
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Social Media
- Coordinates
- 41.170, -80.730
Penny sized hail was observed.
Flood, Trumbull
- When
- June 30, 5:00 PM EST to 6:30 PM EST
- Where
- Trumbull County, 1.17 mi ESE of Mineral Ridge to 1.52 mi SSW of Mc Kinley Hgts
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Property damage
- $80,000
- Reported by
- Newspaper
- Coordinates
- 41.126, -80.748
Heavy rain with rainfall amounts near 2 inches in a little over a half hour hit southern Trumbull County between 430 and 500 pm. These high rainfall rates overwhelmed local storm drains resulting in some flooding of three low lying businesses and the basement of one home. One business had significant flooding in the basement, the other two had minor flooding of an inch or less to their first floor. It was reported that blocked storm drains exasperated the flood damages.
Hail, Ottawa
- When
- June 30, 8:25 PM EST
- Where
- Ottawa County, Oak Harbor
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- Social Media
- Coordinates
- 41.520, -83.150
Penny sized hail was observed.
Hail, Morrow
- When
- June 30, 8:25 PM EST
- Where
- Morrow County, 4 mi E of Cardington
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Trained Spotter
- Coordinates
- 40.500, -82.824
Nickel sized hail was observed.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Tornado and Hail in Pennsylvania, June 30, 2015
- Tornadoes and Hail in North Dakota, June 30, 2015
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Nevada, June 30, 2015
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 30, 2015
- Tornado and Hail in Montana, June 30, 2015
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in Pennsylvania, June 30, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Alabama, June 30, 2015
- Tornado in Pennsylvania, June 30, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 30, 2015
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 30, 2015
More
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Sources
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: 591906, 591907, 591937, 591908, 591909.