This severe thunderstorm and tornado advisory archive will detail all text-based, severe thunderstorm and tornado-related bulletins, watches and warnings going back to 1983. They will be in chronological order by year and event dates. The archive will be for the main Columbus Metro counties of Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Pickaway and Union.
**Last Updated: 7/7/2025- Converted 1990, 1991 and 1993 to PDF and added events.
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Sunday, August 14, 1994
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
410 AM EDT SUN AUG 14 1994
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED INTO CENTRAL OHIO THIS MORNING.
AT 405 AM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS WAS
DETECTING A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER CENTRAL UNION AND NORTHWEST
DELAWARE COUNTIES. THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM JUST WEST OF PEORIA TO
NEAR RADNOR.
MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST/NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE DETECTED IN EASTERN CHAMPAIGN COUNTY…NEAR
MECHANICSBURG. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN MADISON AND
SOUTHERN UNION COUNTIES THROUGH 445 AM EDT.
STRONG GUSTY WINDS…FREQUENT LIGHTNING…VERY HEAVY RAINFAPLL AND
SMALL HAIL MAY ACCOMPANY THE STRONGER STORMS.
Saturday, August 20, 1994
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
435 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 1994
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 9 PM EDT.
AT 430 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A BAND OF SHOWERS AND SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY TO NEAR CHILLICOTHE IN ROSS COUNTY. THIS BAND OF STORMS WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL REACH SOUTHERN MADISON…SOUTHERN PICKAWAY…AND EASTERN ROSS COUNTIES BY 450 PM.
THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MILES AN HOUR… BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN…FREQUENT LIGHTNING…AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
525 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 1994
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 9 PM EDT.
AT 520 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER UNION…NORTHERN MADISON…PARTS OF ROSS AND PICKAWAY COUNTIES…AND OVER THE SOUTHWEST PART OF THE COLUMBUS METRO AREA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR.
THE STORMS OVER SOUTHWEST COLUMBUS WILL MOVE NORTH-NORTHEAST THROUGH COLUMBUS THROUGH 6 PM. THE STORMS WILL CONTAIN GUSTY WINDS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR…BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN…FREQUENT LIGHTNING…AND PVOSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
735 PM EDT SAT AUG 20 1994
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF CENTRAL OHIO UNTIL 9 PM EDT.
AT 735 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVERSPREADING THE WESTERN HALF OF ROSS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL REACH THE TOWNS OF CLARKSBURG…ANDERSONVILLE…AND CHILLICOTHE BY 800 PM.
OTHER SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER FAYETTE…MADISON…AND UNION COUNTIES.
ALL OF THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.
THE STRONGER STORMS WILL CONTAIN WIND GUSTS TO 40 MILES AN HOUR…BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN…AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL.
Thursday, August 25, 1994
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
533 PM EDT THU AUG 25 1994
A THUNDERSTORM WITH BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS MOVING THROUGH NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
AT 530 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM IN NORTHERN FAIRFIELD COUNTY NEAR THURSTON. THIS STORM WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR…AND WILL MOVE THROUGH THE EASTERN PART OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY THROUGH 600 PM.
THE TOWNS OF PLEASANTVILLE…OAKTHORPE…WEST RUSHVILLE…RUSHVILLE
AND BREMEN ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM. THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN…OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING…AND POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS TO 35 MILES AN HOUR.
Sunday, August 28, 1994
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
412 PM EDT SUN AUG 28 1994
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO NORTH CENTRAL OHIO THIS AFTERNOON.
AT 410 PM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS WAS
INDICATING A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER WEST CENTRAL AND NORTH CENTRAL OHIO. THESE STORMS EXTENDED FROM SIDNEY…TO 5 MILES NORTH OF BELLEFONTAINE…TO MARION. MOVEMENT WAS RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO NORTHERN UNION COUNTY BY 430 PM…AND INTO NORTHERN DELAWARE COUNTY BY 500 PM. FREQUENT LIGHTNING…SMALL HAIL…GUSTY WINDS AND VERY HEAVY RAIN ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
645 PM EDT SUN AUG 28 1994
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO
UNTIL 11 PM EDT.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LICKING COUNTY EXPIRED AT 630 PM.
AT 635 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM NEAR ZANESVILLE TO NEAR THURSTON AND BALTIMORE IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY…TO NEAR ASHVILLE AND DARBYVILLE IN PICKAWAY COUNTY. THIS LINE OF STORMS CONTINUED INTO NORTHERN FAYETTE COUNTY. THIS LINE OF STORMS WAS MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 TO 35 MILES AN HOUR.
THIS LINE OF STORMS WILL REACH THE TOWNS OF CROOKSVILLE…
CIRCLEVILLE…AND WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE BY 700 PM. THIS LINE OF STORMS HAS WEAKENED…BUT WILL STILL PRODUCE GUSTY WINDS…BRIEF VERY HEAVY RAIN…AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. AN AREA OF SHOWERS WAS MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL OHIO NORTH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS.
Wednesday, August 31, 1994
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
227 PM EDT WED AUG 31 1994
SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WERE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN COUNTIES OF CENTRAL OHIO THIS AFTERNOON.
AT 225 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAYETTE…SOUTHERN PICKAWAY…AND ROSS COUNTIES.
THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE HEAVY RAIN AND OCCASIONAL LIGHTNING. WIND GUSTS TO 35 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE STRONGER STORMS. DURING THE AFTERNOON…THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EASTWARD INTO SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD…HOCKING AND VINTON COUNTIES.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
355 PM EDT WED AUG 31 1994
SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH SOUTH-CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
AT 350 PM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER SOUTHERN FAIRFIELD INTO LOGAN COUNTIES…AND OVER EXTREME SOUTHWEST PERRY COUNTY. THUNDERSTORMS ALSO EXTENDED FROM SOUTHERN ROSS AND VINTON COUNTIES ACROSS ATHENS COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINFALL…WITH POSSIBLE
AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 1.5 INCHES WITHIN AN HOUR. THE STORMS WILL ALSO CONTAIN FREQUENT LIGHTNING. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR AND SMALL HAIL MAY ALSO OCCUR WITH SOME OF THE STORMS.
Saturday, September 10,1994
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
654 AM EDT SAT SEP 10 1994
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE DEVELOPED OVER CENTRAL OHIO THIS MORNING.
AT 650 AM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS WAS DETECTING AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER UNION AND FRANKLIN
COUNTIES…GENERALLY BETWEEN MARYSVILLE AND DUBLIN. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE ACROSS THE COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN AREA THROUGH 8 AM EDT. SMALL HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE WITH SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
741 AM EDT SAT SEP 10 1994
THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE OVER CENTRAL OHIO THIS MORNING.
AT 735 AM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS AND THE WILMINGTON DOPPLER RADAR WERE DETECTING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER FRANKLIN COUNTY. THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE GENERALLY WITHIN THE I-270 OUTERBELT.
MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE EAST/SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
SOME OF THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN. A RAINFALL OBSERVER IN DUBLIN REPORTED 0.63 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 705 AND 730 AM EDT. MINOR STREET FLOODING IS POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE COLUMBUS AREA THIS MORNING…ESPECIALLY OVER THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE CITY. THESE STORMS SHOULD MOVE SOUTHEAST OF THE COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN AREA BETWEEN 800 AND 830 AM EDT.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
839 AM EDT SAT SEP 10 1994
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH CENTRAL OHIO THIS MORNING.
AT 830 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE MOVED SOUTHEAST OUT OF FRANKLIN COUNTY INTO PICKAWAY AND FAIRFIELD COUNTY AND WERE MOVING SOUTHEAST ABOUT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND FREQUENT LIGTHNING HAVE ACCOMPANIED THESE THUNDERSTORMS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE HALF TO ONE INCH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE SOUTHEAST AND WILL MOVE INTO ROSS AND HOCKING COUNTIES BETWEEN 9 AM AND 930 AM EDT.
Saturday, September 24, 1994
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
616 PM EDT SAT SEP 24 1994
THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO CENTRAL OHIO EARLY THIS EVENING. AT 610 PM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS WAS
DETECTING AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO SOUTHERN PICKAWAY COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE GENERALLY LOCATED BETWEEN CIRCLEVILLE AND CHILLICOTHE. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SHOWN SIGNS OF WEAKENING BUT MAY PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND PERIODS OF BRIEF HEAVY RAIN IN AND NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF CIRCLEVILLE AND ASHVILLE THROUGH 700 PM.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
722 PM EDT SAT SEP 24 1994
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING ACROSS MADISON COUNTY THIS EVENING.
AT 715 PM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS WAS
INDICATING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS JUST SOUTH OF LONDON NEAR THE TOWN OF NEWPORT.
MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM WILL LIKELY MOVE OVER THE LONDON AREA BETWEEN 730 AND 745PM.
ANOTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED OVER NORTHWEST MADISON COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PLUMWOOD…AND WILL LIKELY MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST UNION COUNTY BY 745 PM.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE SHOWN SIGNS OF WEAKENING OVER THE PAST HOUR BUT FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY RAIN IS STILL POSSIBLE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
806 PM EDT SAT SEP 24 1994
STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS CENTRAL OHIO THIS EVENING.
AT 800 PM EDT THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS WAS
INDICATING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LICKING COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS TOWARD THE NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN. THE WILMINGTON DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED THAT OVER 1 INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN BETWEEN 700 AND 800 PM EDT OVER AN AREA BETWEEN PATASKALA AND PICKERINGTON.
THESE STORMS WILL LIKELY MOVE NORTHWARD OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF LICKING COUNTY THROUGH 845 PM EDT. HEAVY RAIN AND PONDING OF WATER ON HIGHWAYS CAN BE EXPECTED IN AND NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF
PATASKALA…SUMMIT STATION AND JERSEY.
Sunday, September 25, 1994
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
848 AM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994
ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE DEVELOPING BETWEEN COLUMBUS AND WASHINGTON COURTHOUSE THIS MORNING.
AT 845 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED ISOLATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER FAR WEST AND NORTHWEST PICKAWAY AND SOUTHEAST MADISON COUNTIES. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
SOME TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS ARE MT. STERLING…ERA…AND
DERBY. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWEST FRANKLIN COUNTY BY 9 AM. THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN…FREQUENT LIGHTNING…AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
1000 AM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994
WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH PARTS OF CENTRAL OHIO THIS MORNING.
AT 955 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN FAIRFIELD…THE EASTERN HALF OF LICKING…AND SOUTHWESTERN DELAWARE COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THE STRONGEST STORMS WERE OVER NORTHEAST LICKING AND SOUTHWEST DELAWARE COUNTIES.
STORMS WHICH MOVED THROUGH THE WESTERN COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN AREA PRODUCED SMALL HAIL IN UPPER ARLINGTON BETWEEN 900 AM AND 945 AM. THE STRONGER STORMS WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN…FREQUENT LIGHTNING…SMALL HAIL…AND POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT…CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
1118 AM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994
WIDELY SCATTERED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEASTERN OHIO AND THE CENTRAL OHIO COUNTIES EAST OF COLUMBUS LATE THIS MORNING.
AT 11 AM NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN ATHENS AND EXTREME EASTERN HOCKING COUNTIES. OTHER STORMS WERE OVER CENTRAL PERRY…SOUTHERN AND FAR EASTERN LICKING COUNTIES. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTH AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THE STORMS WILL CONTINUE DEVELOPING AND MOVING NORTHWARD THROUGH NORTHERN ATHENS…PERRY AND EASTERN LICKING COUNTIES THROUGH NOON. SOME STORMS MAY ALSO DEVELOP OR MOVE INTO WESTERN MORGAN AND MUSKINGUM COUNTIES.
THE STRONGER STORMS WILL CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN…FREQUENT LIGHTNING…AND POSSIBLY SMALL HAIL. WIND GUSTS TO 40 MPH ARE ALSO POSSIBLE. PEOPLE THROUGHOUT CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST OHIO SHOULD MONITOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION TODAY AS SOME OF THE STORMS MAY BE SEVERE. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
215 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF OHIO UNTIL 700 PM EDT.
AT 210 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS WAS INDICATING AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS 20 MILES WIDE EXTENDING FROM BELLE CENTER IN LOGAN COUNTY THROUGH LONDON AND WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE TO PORTSMOUTH IN SCIOTO COUNTY. RADAR ALSO SHOWED AN AREA OF STORMS COVERING MOST OF PERRY…HOCKING…AND NORTHERN ATHENS COUNTY.
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH/NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR. AT SIGNS OF AN IMPENDING STORM…TOWERING THUNDERHEADS…DARKENING SKIES…LIGHTNING AND INCREASING WINDS…MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY.
Saturday, October 1, 1994
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE COLUMBUS OH
428 PM EDT SAT OCT 1 1994
AT 423 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR IN COLUMBUS AND THE DOPPLER RADAR IN WILMINGTON WERE SHOWING RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF
THUNDERSTORMS IN CENTRAL OHIO. THE STRONGEST STORM WAS ON THE
LICKING/FAIRFIELD COUNTY LINE. RADAR ALSO SHOWED A WEAKER THUNDERSTORM IN MUSKINGUM COUNTY NEAR ZANESVILLE. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL…GUSTY WINDS…DANGEROUS LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.
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