Thunderstorm Wind, Franklin
- When
- September 3, 3:03 PM EST to 3:04 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin County, 0.53 mi W of (Cmh)port Columbus A
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) measured gust
- Reported by
- ASOS
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -82.890
Flooding and Damaging Wind in Ohio, September 3, 2015
A weak upper level disturbance produced isolated thunderstorms across Central Ohio during the afternoon hours. The storms produced locally heavy rainfall and isolated severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
Where it happened
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- 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 ILN wrote it up.
A weak upper level disturbance produced isolated thunderstorms across Central Ohio during the afternoon hours. The storms produced locally heavy rainfall and isolated severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
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 Wilmington, OH wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Sep 3, 12:46 PM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 12:46 PM EST, 2 hours 17 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 146 PM EDT THU SEP 3 2015 .SYNOPSIS... A WEAK UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL CROSS THE OHIO VALLEY AS IT MOVES SOUTHEAST TODAY. A BROADER UPPER LEVEL LOW WILL MOVE SOUTH INTO THE REGION FROM THE GREAT LAKES TONIGHT AND LINGER OVER OHIO FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. A VERY WEAK SURFACE PATTERN UNDERNEATH THIS UPPER DISTURBANCE WILL KEEP A THREAT FOR AFTERNOON STORMS THROUGH SATURDAY. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/... THE WARM...MOIST AND UNSTABLE AIRMASS IS STILL IN PLACE ACROSS THE REGION TODAY. THIS WILL RESULT IN ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT ONCE AGAIN. SOME BETTER COVERAGE MAY DEVELOP THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON ACROSS NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE FA AS SHORT WAVE ENERGY CURRENTLY UP ACROSS CENTRAL LOWER MICHIGAN DROPS SOUTHWARD TOWARD OUR AREA. AS A RESULT...WILL RANGE POPS FROM SLIGHT CHANCE SOUTH TO CHANCE NORTH FOR LATER TODAY. EXPECT AFTERNOON HIGHS GENERALLY IN THE UPPER 80S TO NEAR 90. && .SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY NIGHT/... THE CIRCULATION OVER EASTERN MICHIGAN TONIGHT WILL SLOWLY EKE SOUTHWARD AND SETTLE OVER OHIO ON FRIDAY AND MEANDER TO NORTHERN KENTUCKY ON SATURDAY. WITH A WEAK SURFACE FLOW AND CONTINUED HUMID AIRMASS...AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE PRESENT IF ONLY IN A SCATTERED OR ISOLATED NATURE THROUGH SATURDAY. THE INCREASED CLOUD COVER EXPECTED WITH THE UPPER FEATURE WILL LIMIT HIGHS FROM REACHING PAST 90 THROUGH THIS TIME AS WELL. A BIT OF DRIER AIR IS EXPECTED TO WORK IN ON SUNDAY...AND THE THREAT FOR STORMS ON THIS DAY SEEMS A BIT MORE DIMINISHED THAN THE OTHERS. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP IN AN UNSTABLE AIRMASS SATURDAY AFTERNOON. EXPECT ANY THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TO DISSIPATE SATURDAY EVENING. HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN ALLOW FOR DRY CONDITIONS THROUGH MONDAY MORNING. A WEAK UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE WILL ALLOW FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MONDAY AFTERNOON INTO MONDAY NIGHT. ADDITIONAL DISTURBANCES WILL KEEP PRECIPITATION CHANCES IN THE FORECAST FOR TUESDAY INTO WEDNESDAY. WITHOUT ANY SIGNIFICANT FORCING KEPT PRECIPITATION CHANCES IN THE EXTENDED IN THE SLIGHT TO CHANCE CATEGORIES. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL GENERALLY BE IN THE 80S THROUGH THE EXTENDED WITH LOW TEMPERATURES IN THE 60S. && .AVIATION /18Z THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY/... ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS HAVE POPPED UP AGAIN ACROSS THE AREA EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THESE STORMS ARE DIURNALLY ENHANCED SO WOULD EXPECT A GENERAL DECREASE IN COVERAGE/CU AS WE HEAD INTO THIS EVENING. HOWEVER...SHORT WAVE ENERGY WILL DROP DOWN FROM THE NORTH THIS EVENING AND INTO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. THIS MAY ALLOW FOR SOME REDEVELOPMENT OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVERNIGHT. AS A RESULT...WILL ALLOW FOR A VCTS AT AT LEAST THE NORTHERN TAF SITES OVERNIGHT. CLOUD COVER TONIGHT WILL BE DEPENDENT ON HOW MUCH ACTIVITY WE END UP SEEING WITH THE OVERNIGHT SHORT WAVE. IF WE END UP WITH ENOUGH CLOUD COVER...BR/FG DEVELOPMENT WILL BE AT LEAST PARTIALLY MITIGATED. FOR NOW THOUGH...WILL TREND TOWARD PERSISTENCE AND ALLOW FOR SOME MVFR TO IFR VSBY RESTRICTIONS AT THE MORE CLIMATOLOGICALLY FAVORABLE KLUK/KLCK/KILN TAF SITES. AS WE DESTABILIZE THROUGH THE DAY ON FRIDAY...EXPECT THE THREAT FOR ISOLATED THE SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO LINGER THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF THE TAF PERIOD. OUTLOOK...NO SIGNIFICANT WEATHER EXPECTED. && .ILN WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... OH...NONE. KY...NONE. IN...NONE. && SYNOPSIS... NEAR TERM...JGL SHORT TERM...FRANKS LONG TERM...FRANKS/NOVAK AVIATION...JGL/SITES
Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 3, 4:00 AM EST, 11 hours 3 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 500 AM EDT THU SEP 3 2015 INZ050-058-059-066-073>075-080-KYZ089>100-OHZ026-034-035-042>046- 051>056-060>065-070>074-077>082-088-040900- WAYNE-FAYETTE-UNION-FRANKLIN-RIPLEY-DEARBORN-OHIO-SWITZERLAND- CARROLL-GALLATIN-BOONE-KENTON-CAMPBELL-OWEN-GRANT-PENDLETON-BRACKEN- ROBERTSON-MASON-LEWIS-HARDIN-MERCER-AUGLAIZE-DARKE-SHELBY-LOGAN- DELAWARE-MIAMI-CHAMPAIGN-CLARK-MADISON-LICKING-PREBLE-MONTGOMERY- GREENE-PICKAWAY-FAIRFIELD-BUTLER-WARREN-CLINTON-ROSS-HOCKING- HAMILTON-CLERMONT-BROWN-HIGHLAND-ADAMS-PIKE-SCIOTO- 500 AM EDT THU SEP 3 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR INDIANA...NORTHEAST KENTUCKY...NORTHERN KENTUCKY...CENTRAL OHIO...SOUTHWEST OHIO AND WEST CENTRAL OHIO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 103 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:04 UTC.
Event by event
2 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Flood, Franklin
- When
- September 3, 7:35 PM EST to 9:00 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin County, 1.2 mi NNW of Groveport to 1.02 mi N of Groveport
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- County Official
- Coordinates
- 39.867, -82.886
High water was covering part of Hamilton Road.
Flood, Franklin
- When
- September 3, 7:35 PM EST to 9:00 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin County, 0.54 mi NW of Doneys to 0.51 mi NNW of Doneys
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Reported by
- County Official
- Coordinates
- 39.956, -82.906
High water was over the road near the intersection of East Main Street and Barnett Road.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 3, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, September 3, 2015
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, September 3, 2015
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Florida, September 3 to 5, 2015
- Marine Thunderstorm Winds in South Atlantic Coastal Waters, September 3, 2015
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arizona, September 3, 2015
- Hail in Wisconsin, September 3, 2015
- Heavy Rain in Washington, September 3, 2015
- Damaging Wind in New Hampshire, September 3, 2015
More
Every storm in Ohio in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, September 2015
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: 592607, 592605, 592606.