Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued March 22 at 9:27PM EDT until March 22 at 10:15PM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

SVRILN
The National Weather Service in Wilmington has issued a
* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Shelby County in west central Ohio... Northwestern Champaign County in west central Ohio... Western Logan County in west central Ohio... Darke County in west central Ohio... Southern Auglaize County in west central Ohio... Southeastern Mercer County in west central Ohio... Miami County in west central Ohio...
* Until 1015 PM EDT.
* At 927 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near New Bremen to near Fountain City, moving east at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Quarter size hail.
SOURCE...Law enforcement.
IMPACT...Minor damage to vehicles is possible.
* Locations impacted include... Troy, Sidney, Piqua, Bellefontaine, Greenville, Tipp City, West Milton, New Bremen, Minster, Versailles, Covington, Arcanum, Newport, Bradford, Anna, Fort Loramie, Jackson Center, Russells Point, De Graff, and Pleasant Hill.
This includes I-75 in Ohio between mile markers 67 and 106.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued March 22 at 5:43PM EDT until March 23 at 12:00AM EDT by NWS Wilmington OH (details ...)

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 73 IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT 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 3 COUNTIES
IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY
BOONE CAMPBELL KENTON
IN OHIO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 32 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL OHIO
DELAWARE FAIRFIELD FAYETTE FRANKLIN HOCKING LICKING MADISON PICKAWAY UNION
IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO
ADAMS HIGHLAND PIKE ROSS SCIOTO
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, AURORA, BATESVILLE, BEAVERCREEK, BELLEFONTAINE, BELLEVUE, BLANCHESTER, BRIGHT, BROOKVILLE, BURLINGTON, CAMDEN, CELINA, CHILLICOTHE, CIRCLEVILLE, COLDWATER, CONNERSVILLE, COVINGTON, DAY HEIGHTS, DAYTON, DELAWARE, DILLSBORO, DOWNTOWN CINCINNATI, DOWNTOWN COLUMBUS, DOWNTOWN DAYTON, EATON, ERLANGER, FAIRBORN, FAIRFIELD, FLORENCE, FORT THOMAS, FRANKLIN, GEORGETOWN, GREENDALE, GREENFIELD, GREENVILLE, HAMILTON, HIDDEN VALLEY, HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, HILLSBORO, INDEPENDENCE, KENTON, KETTERING, LANCASTER, LANDEN, LAWRENCEBURG, LEBANON, LIBERTY, LOGAN, LONDON, MANCHESTER, MARYSVILLE, MASON, MIDDLETOWN, MILAN, MILFORD, MINSTER, MOUNT CARMEL, MOUNT ORAB, MOUNT REPOSE, MULBERRY, NEW BREMEN, NEWARK, NEWPORT, OAKBROOK, OSGOOD, OXFORD, PEEBLES, PICKERINGTON, PIKE LAKE, PIKETON, PIQUA, PLAIN CITY, PORTSMOUTH, RICHMOND, RIPLEY, RISING SUN, SEAMAN, SIDNEY, SPRINGBORO, SPRINGFIELD, ST. MARYS, SUMMERSIDE, TIPP CITY, TROY, URBANA, VERSAILLES, VEVAY, WAPAKONETA, WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE, WAVERLY, WEST COLLEGE CORNER, WEST JEFFERSON, WEST UNION, WHEELERSBURG, WILMINGTON, WINCHESTER, WITHAMSVILLE, AND XENIA.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014

Goodwin receives Paul Brown Award

By Gary R. Rasberry

Photo from Associated Press

Marion Local head football coach Tim Goodwin, right, receives the Paul Brown Award for Coaching Excellence from Cincinnati Bengals' president Mike Brown on Tuesday in Cincinnati.

Marion Local's Tim Goodwin has a mantle full of honors already in his 15 years as head football coach: Seven state titles, a couple of state Coach of the Year accolades and an .800-plus career winning percentage.

Goodwin added to his honors on Tuesday in receiving the Paul Brown Excellence in Coaching Award from Cincinnati Bengals owner/president Mike Brown. The award, first presented in 2002, honors outstanding high school coaches in the region.

"This is a really nice award for two reasons," said Goodwin, who said he found out about the honor in June, via telephone. "First of all, it caught me totally by surprise, so that makes it kind of fun. The second is (the person the award is named after) Paul Brown and he was a high school coach (at Massillon Washington, the site for several of Marion's state championship titles). I met with a lot of the Brown family today and you can tell how much their dad meant to them. You can tell they felt this was an important day for them."

Mike Brown and the Brown family showed Goodwin and his wife Dawn, who celebrated their 19th wedding anniversary on Tuesday, around Paul Brown Stadium before the ceremony.

"They couldn't have been nicer to my wife and I today," said Goodwin, who is 169-40 at Marion Local. "They showed us around everywhere. They treated us like royalty. We met a lot of classy people today."

The majority of the previous winners were coaches of Cincinnati-are schools like Moeller, St. Xavier, Elder and Taft. Goodwin thinks a Marion connection might have helped in his earning the honor.

"I think Jim Lippincott (who coached Marion Local in the 1970s and later worked for the Bengals' front office) was helpful for me in getting this award," Goodwin said.

Goodwin gave credit to the players and assistant coaches with whom he has worked over the years.

"Like I told them today, I'm just here representing all the great kids who worked their tails off at Marion Local and all the great people who have coached with me," he said.

In addition to a plaque, the Marion Local athletic department will receive $5,000 from the Bengals.

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