Severe thunderstorm warning issued for West Union, Peebles and Seaman

A severe thunderstorm warning covered West Union, Peebles and Seaman until 4:45 p.m. EDT as radar showed a storm capable of 60 mph wind gusts and pea-sized hail moving through Adams County. The main threats were damage to trees and power lines, the sort of fast-moving impact that can leave roads blocked and service interrupted in the county's village centers and outlying stretches. The West Union weather page later listed no active hazardous weather conditions.

Adams County was already included in the National Weather Service Wilmington office's Hazardous Weather Outlook issued at 11:39 a.m. EDT on July 21, signaling that the county was under broader severe-weather concern before the warning hit. That outlook sat alongside the warning for central Adams County, putting West Union, Peebles and Seaman in the path of the same unstable summer pattern.

The first things to check after a warning like this are power, roads and trees. Downed limbs can close narrow roads in and around West Union, and even short outages can affect homes and businesses across Peebles and Seaman if wind gusts strike hard enough to bring lines down. The warning's radar-indicated nature made those risks immediate, not theoretical.

NWS Wilmington also keeps a Local Weather History page and a Significant Weather Event Archive for West Union, a reminder that the office tracks storms here as part of a longer record. Its homepage also pointed to a July 17 Cincinnati-area flash flood headline, showing that southwest Ohio had already been dealing with active summer weather in the days leading up to the Adams County warning.