Hail, Wyandot
- When
- October 30, 8:59 AM EST to 9:03 AM EST
- Where
- Wyandot County, Carey
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Reported by
- Public
- Coordinates
- 40.950, -83.370
Nickel to quarter sized hail fell for four minutes.
Hail in Ohio, October 30, 2016
A cold front moved southeast across the upper Ohio Valley causing showers and thunderstorms to develop. A couple of the stronger thunderstorms became severe.
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
- 2
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.
A cold front moved southeast across the upper Ohio Valley causing showers and thunderstorms to develop. A couple of the stronger thunderstorms became severe.
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 Oct 29, 6:33 PM EST, 14 hours 26 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 29, 6:33 PM EST, 14 hours 26 minutes before
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The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 136 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 13:56 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Wyandot
- When
- October 30, 9:08 AM EST to 9:16 AM EST
- Where
- Wyandot County, 2 mi SW of Sycamore
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- Law Enforcement
- Coordinates
- 40.929, -83.197
Penny to nickel sized hail lasted several minutes.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 664052, 664054.