Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued April 2 at 10:32PM EDT until April 2 at 11:15PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

At 1032 PM EDT, a severe thunderstorm was located near Fort Recovery, moving northeast at 70 mph.
HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Minor hail damage to vehicles is possible. Expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
Locations impacted include... Fryburg, Union Corners, Newbern, Bradford, Chickasaw, Lockington, Darke County Airport, New Madison, Covington, New Knoxville, Neptune, Fort Loramie, Sharps Crossing, Hardin, Pemberton, Kossuth, Bloomer, Lake Loramie State Park, Arcanum, and North Dayton.
This includes I-75 in Ohio between mile markers 76 and 118.

Flood Watch issued April 2 at 9:21PM EDT until April 6 at 8:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall continues to be possible.
* WHERE...The following counties, in Indiana, Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland, Union and Wayne, the following counties, in Kentucky, Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Lewis, Mason, Owen, Pendleton and Robertson, and the following counties, in Ohio, Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Darke, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Hardin, Highland, Hocking, Licking, Logan, Madison, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Pickaway, Pike, Preble, Ross, Scioto, Shelby, Union and Warren.
* WHEN...Through Sunday morning.
* IMPACTS...Soils remain moist and excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.
* ADDITIONAL DETAILS... - Multiple rounds of rain will occur into the weekend with the heaviest rain expect Thursday night into Friday morning and then again Saturday into Saturday night.

Tornado Watch issued April 2 at 9:13PM EDT until April 3 at 4:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED TORNADO WATCH 103 IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EDT THURSDAY FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN INDIANA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES
IN EAST CENTRAL INDIANA
FAYETTE UNION WAYNE
IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA
DEARBORN FRANKLIN OHIO RIPLEY SWITZERLAND
IN KENTUCKY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 9 COUNTIES
IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY
BOONE BRACKEN CAMPBELL CARROLL GALLATIN GRANT KENTON OWEN PENDLETON
IN OHIO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 27 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL OHIO
DELAWARE FAIRFIELD FAYETTE FRANKLIN LICKING MADISON PICKAWAY UNION
IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
HIGHLAND
IN SOUTHWEST OHIO
BROWN BUTLER CLERMONT CLINTON HAMILTON WARREN
IN WEST CENTRAL OHIO
AUGLAIZE CHAMPAIGN CLARK DARKE GREENE HARDIN LOGAN MERCER MIAMI MONTGOMERY PREBLE SHELBY
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, ADA, ALEXANDRIA, AUGUSTA, AURORA, BATESVILLE, BEAVERCREEK, BELLEFONTAINE, BELLEVUE, BLANCHESTER, BRIGHT, BROOKSVILLE, BROOKVILLE, BURLINGTON, BUTLER, CAMDEN, CARROLLTON, CELINA, CIRCLEVILLE, COLDWATER, CONNERSVILLE, COVINGTON, CRITTENDEN, DAY HEIGHTS, DAYTON, DELAWARE, DILLSBORO, DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI, DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS, DOWNTOWN DAYTON, DRY RIDGE, EATON, ERLANGER, FAIRBORN, FAIRFIELD, FALMOUTH, FLORENCE, FORT THOMAS, FRANKLIN, GEORGETOWN, GREENDALE, GREENFIELD, GREENVILLE, HAMILTON, HIDDEN VALLEY, HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, HILLSBORO, INDEPENDENCE, KENTON, KETTERING, LANCASTER, LANDEN, LAWRENCEBURG, LEBANON, LIBERTY, LONDON, MARYSVILLE, MASON, MIDDLETOWN, MILAN, MILFORD, MINSTER, MOUNT CARMEL, MOUNT ORAB, MOUNT REPOSE, MULBERRY, NEW BREMEN, NEWARK, NEWPORT, OAKBROOK, OSGOOD, OWENTON, OXFORD, PICKERINGTON, PIQUA, PLAIN CITY, RICHMOND, RIPLEY, RISING SUN, SIDNEY, SPRINGBORO, SPRINGFIELD, ST. MARYS, SUMMERSIDE, TIPP CITY, TROY, URBANA, VERSAILLES, VEVAY, WAPAKONETA, WARSAW, WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, WEST COLLEGE CORNER, WEST JEFFERSON, WILLIAMSTOWN, WILMINGTON, WITHAMSVILLE, AND XENIA.

The Wind Advisory has been cancelled. (details ...)

The Wind Advisory has been cancelled and is no longer in effect.

Saturday, November 12th, 2011

She's a tree eater

State's new horizontal grinder goes to work

By Nancy Allen

Photo by Mark Pummell/The Daily Standard

Downed trees are fed into the state's new 765-horsepower horizontal grinder during a training session for state employees Tuesday along West Bank Road near Celina. The $400,000 machine will be based out of the region that includes Grand Lake, Lake Loramie and Indian Lake, but will be available to all state parks.

GRAND LAKE - She has a 765-horsepower engine and can grind up a 30-foot log in less than a minute.

The state's new 4700 B horizontal feed grinder went to work Tuesday along West Bank Road. About 30 state park employees from Ohio, including three from Grand Lake St. Marys State Park, attended the training event.

"In a word, it's destruction," Grand Lake dredge program supervisor Tom Grabow said grinning. "She's a beast, that's for sure."

The 67,000-pound, 65-foot-long unit will be used to grind stumps left from downed trees at dredge material relocation areas, logs and stumps pulled from state lakes, dead trees cut on state land and trees toppled by storms.

The $400,000 machine was purchased by the state and will be based out of the region that includes Grand Lake, Lake Loramie and Indian Lake, but will be available to all state parks.

It uses 30 to 32 gallons of diesel gasoline an hour and can grind logs almost three feet in diameter with an unlimited length. Twenty four hardened-steel knives, 6-by-3-inches each, tear apart logs fed into the unit on a 16-foot conveyor.

If the beast ran continuously, it would produce 20 tons (400 yards) of ground wood per hour, said Jeff Beck of Murphy Tractor & Equipment Co., Columbus, who sold the grinder to the state.

"It's impressive to see a log demolished that quick," said Rob Heckler, Celina, a state construction crew member. "It didn't take long to eat up a 30-foot log."

In the spring, Grand Lake St. Marys State Park will have mulch available to the public. It will be made from ground-up stumps at the dredge relocation area along West Bank Road.

"We'll designate a spot to put it in and residents can come load it themselves," Grabow said. "For this first time, we need to give it to the community for something they can use."

The mulch also will be used in state landscaping projects, he said.

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Veterans get their day

Servicemen share breakfast, stories with St. Marys students

ST. MARYS - Being honored as a military veteran is commonplace now. But it wasn't always that way.

Charles Burklo of St. Marys said the Veterans Day ceremony at St. Marys City Schools on Friday was a "far better reception" than when he returned from Vietnam in 1970.

Manure pollution could not be traced

One of six complaints of improper manure application reported recently was substantiated by Mercer County Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) technicians.

St. Henry playing for state title

Division IV Volleyball State Semifinals

FAIRBORN - The St. Henry volleyball team never played a five-game match through the 22 games of the regular season, but the Redskins were pushed to the limit for the third time of the postseason on Friday night in the Division IV state semifinal matchup against Sycamore Mohawk.

Coldwater's Siefring burns Versailles for five touchdowns

Division V Football Regional Semifinal at Dayton's Welcome Stadium

DAYTON - It didn't take long for Coldwater to put themselves in control against Versailles.

More to the point, it didn't take Caleb Siefring long to launch the Cavaliers into the third round of the high school football playoffs.

St. Henry's grads test current team

While pacing the sidelines parallel to her bench for the past two-and-a-half months, St. Henry's head coach Diana Kramer stared down quite a few intimidating opponents.

Jenkins' field goal wins it for Elida

Compiled by Gary R. Rasberry

Nathan Jenkins' 27-yard field goal as time ran out allowed the Elida Bulldogs to knock off Columbus DeSales 24-21 in a Division III regional semifinal at Northmont High School on Friday.