On the afternoon of April 19th, a broken line of strong to severe thunderstorms advanced through southeast Ohio in response to an eastward moving cold front. Damaging wind gusts accompanied this line of convection, which as a result caused many areas in Washington, Athens, and Vinton Counties to observe tree and power line damage.
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On the afternoon of April 19th, a broken line of strong to severe thunderstorms advanced through southeast Ohio in response to an eastward moving cold front. Damaging wind gusts accompanied this line of convection, which as a result caused many areas in Washington, Athens, and Vinton Counties to observe tree and power line damage. A 72 mile per hour wind gust was measured at a home in Belpre, close to where the roof of a barn was blown off. Storms quickly dashed eastward into West Virginia, bringing the severe weather threat in Ohio to an end by late that afternoon.
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 Charleston, WV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 19, 12:55 PM EST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION National Weather Service Charleston WV 155 PM EDT Sat Apr 19 2025 .SYNOPSIS... Rain and thunderstorms expected in the vicinity of a front this afternoon and evening. A cold front pushes through Monday. Another system arrives late in the work week. && .NEAR TERM /THROUGH SUNDAY/... As of 130 PM Saturday... Key Point: * Isolated strong to severe storms possible late this afternoon/evening across SE OH and NW WV. Southwesterly flow in an expansive warm sector covering most of the east coast has allow surface temperatures to rise in the upper 70s/lower 80s across the lower elevations early this afternoon with an eventual destination in the mid to upper 80s later this afternoon. At this hour, the warm sector remains largely capped due to relatively dry low level conditions, but moisture pooling ahead of a cold front draped over Central Ohio will continue to advect eastward as the front slowly approaches late this afternoon into this evening. This should yield a narrow corridor of MLCAPE 1000- 1500J/kg with minimal capping across SE OH into NW WV heading into the late afternoon/evening hours amid strong deep layer and near surface kinematic fields supportive of both updraft/downdraft separation and storm rotation. Think storms will remain pretty well rooted to this ribbon of enhanced moisture given storm motions that roughly parallel it and increasingly hostile conditions for sustaining storms away from the enhanced pool of surface moisture. Storm mode should begin as isolated supercells, but given storm motions and increasing westerly flow this evening this could turn into more of a broken line with embedded super-cellular structures. The primary threat will be damaging wind gusts and marginally severe hail. Fairly wide surface dew point depressions should limit the overall meso-cyclonic tornado risk, although it will not be zero, with storm scale interaction or a brief window as the LLJ begins to strengthen before storms become rooted aloft this evening. Any lingering activity becomes increasingly sparse overnight before completely dissipating early Sunday morning. A nebulous frontal zone is expected to be draped across our area by Sunday morning. Guidance has come into a little better alignment positioning this feature across our far south around daybreak, and slowly starting to lift back to the north late morning into the afternoon as southerly flow begins to increase ahead of the next system slated for Monday. As far as sensible weather impacts, they will be relatively minimal - perhaps a few showers near the mountains and a decent gradient in afternoon highs depending on how far it makes it back to the north before daytime heating fades. Central guidance generally takes it just north of the Metro Valley by Sunday afternoon with highs in the lower to mid 80s south of the boundary and mid to upper 70s north of it - around 10 to 15 degrees above normal values for late April. && .SHORT TERM /SUNDAY NIGHT THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT/... As of 155 PM Saturday... Generally dry but mild conditions can be expected Sunday night with a southerly wind flow in advance of an approaching cold front. The cold front will push through on Monday into Monday night, providing a band of showers and thunderstorms. The front should be south of the area by Tuesday morning, but depending on how far south the front pushes, some showers could linger over southern and eastern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia. && .LONG TERM /TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... As of 1205 PM Saturday... A cold front should be located south of the area by Tuesday morning. Models do vary on how far south the front pushes, and hence, if enough moisture remains over southern and eastern West Virginia and southwest Virginia for some showers to develop on Tuesday and Wednesday. The moisture will eventually return northward later in the work week as a southerly flow develops. There are some timing differences between the models with this moisture return but this will allow for chances of precipitation throughout the area either Thursday or Friday. && .AVIATION /18Z SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY/... As of 130 PM Saturday... Much of the region remains in an expansive warm sector through late this afternoon with mainly scattered to broken mid level clouds beneath thin broken high clouds. A cold front bisecting Ohio will continue to slowly approach late this afternoon into this evening. Thunderstorms are expected to sprout out of an enhanced pool of low level moisture in advance of this feature and slowly work across the northern periphery of our forecast area through tonight. This will primarily affect PKB/CKB/EKN with thunderstorms, potentially strong and/or heavy at PKB. Given relatively high confidence here terminals, will cover with a TEMPO with PROB30 at CKB/EKN in this package. MVFR ceilings are expected to build in from north to south in the wake of cold frontal passage tonight. Couldn't completely rule out some patchy fog if the boundary happens to stall on any given terminal Sunday morning. This would be most likely at CRW or BKW, but given low confidence will not include any fog in this package. Winds generally southwesterly ahead of cold frontal passage, 8-12KTs with gusts up to around 20, becoming light and northerly behind the front and eventually back to southerly on Sunday as it lifts back to the north as a warm front. FORECAST CONFIDENCE AND ALTERNATE SCENARIOS THROUGH 18Z SUNDAY... FORECAST CONFIDENCE: High. ALTERNATE SCENARIOS: Highly variable conditions are possible in any heavy thunderstorms this evening. Fog may form where the frontal stalls out tonight between CRW and BKW. EXPERIMENTAL TABLE OF FLIGHT CATEGORY OBJECTIVELY SHOWS CONSISTENCY OF WFO FORECAST TO AVAILABLE MODEL INFORMATION: H = HIGH: TAF CONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL. M = MEDIUM: TAF HAS VARYING LEVEL OF CONSISTENCY WITH MODELS. L = LOW: TAF INCONSISTENT WITH ALL MODELS OR ALL BUT ONE MODEL. UTC 1HRLY 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 02 03 04 05 EDT 1HRLY 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 00 01 CRW CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H HTS CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H BKW CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H EKN CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H PKB CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H M H H CKB CONSISTENCY H H H H H H H H H H H H AFTER 18Z SUNDAY... Brief IFR possible in showers and thunderstorms with a cold front on Monday. && .RLX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WV...None. OH...None. KY...None. VA...None. && SYNOPSIS...MEK/RPY NEAR TERM...JP SHORT TERM...RPY LONG TERM...RPY AVIATION...JP
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Charleston WV 315 AM EDT Sat Apr 19 2025 OHZ066-067-075-076-083-084-200800- Perry-Morgan-Athens-Washington-Jackson OH-Vinton- 315 AM EDT Sat Apr 19 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of southeast Ohio. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. Isolated severe storms are possible this afternoon and evening. Damaging wind gusts and hail are the main threats. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions by calling the toll-free spotter hotline, or by other methods detailed at www.weather.gov/rlx/reports. KYZ101>103-OHZ085>087-WVZ006>011-014-016>020-029>032-039-040-200800- Greenup-Carter-Boyd-Meigs-Gallia-Lawrence OH-Cabell-Mason-Jackson WV- Wood-Pleasants-Tyler-Putnam-Roane-Wirt-Calhoun-Ritchie-Doddridge- Gilmer-Lewis-Harrison-Taylor-Upshur-Barbour- 315 AM EDT Sat Apr 19 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northeast Kentucky, portions of southeast Ohio, and portions of central, northern, southern and western West Virginia. .DAY ONE...Today and Tonight. A few strong storms are possible this afternoon and evening. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions by calling the toll-free spotter hotline, or by other methods detailed at www.weather.gov/rlx/reports. KYZ105-VAZ003-004-WVZ005-013-015-024>028-033-034-515>526-200800- Lawrence-Dickenson-Buchanan-Wayne-Lincoln-Kanawha-Mingo-Logan-Boone- Clay-Braxton-McDowell-Wyoming-Northwest Raleigh-Southeast Raleigh- Northwest Fayette-Southeast Fayette-Northwest Nicholas- Southeast Nicholas-Northwest Webster-Southeast Webster- Northwest Pocahontas-Southeast Pocahontas-Northwest Randolph- Southeast Randolph- 315 AM EDT Sat Apr 19 2025 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of northeast Kentucky, southwest Virginia, and portions of central, northeast, southeast, southern and western West Virginia. .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 Cincinnati radar (KILN), 101 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:17 UTC.
13 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Power outages due to tree and power line damage were observed in the Ratcliffburg area.
Downed trees and power lines resulted in local power outages in the area of Hamden.
A tree and power lines were knocked down along Locust Grove Road.
Multiple downed trees were observed in McArthur.
A tree was blown down on Church Street in Hamden.
A tree fell onto an unoccupied home along Meadowbrook Road near Hebbardsville.
Numerous downed trees and power outages were observed in and south of Athens.
In Guysville, a tree fell onto a local home along Franklin Street.
Several pine trees had their tops knocked off in Little Hocking. One large maple tree was uprooted nearby.
Uprooted and downed trees were observed outside of Belpre.
A barn in Belpre was destroyed due to strong winds. An adjacent barn had its roofing peeled off in spots.
Multiple trees were blown down in the Belpre area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 1255836, 1255837, 1255838, 1255839, 1255840, 1255841, 1255842, 1255843, 1255846, 1255845, 1255847, 1255844, 1255848.