By Dan Klepal
The Cincinnati Enquirer

A cold front moving through the Tristate early Saturday morning brought hail, stinging rain, high winds along with tornado and thunderstorm watches to most of the region.

No deaths or serious injuries were reported as a result of the storm system by 1 a.m. this morning, but there were plenty of downed trees, power lines and singing alarms at homes and businesses to keep dispatchers and emergency responders busy.

Myron Padgett, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Wilmington, said there were no tornado sightings as of 1 a.m.

"We've had some severe thunderstorms and some downed power lines, but no serious damage to this point," Padgett said.

Hamilton County dispatchers said the majority of their calls came from alarms going off. "The power goes out and the alarm goes off. The power comes back on, and the alarm goes off," one dispatcher said. "But it's not been too bad to this point."

Eastern counties in Indiana got off pretty easily, too. There were no calls to the Dearborn County dispatchers, and Ripley County only got four calls - all trees down, two in power lines.

"We just got some thunder, lightning and wind. There were no accidents at all," Ripley County dispatcher Amanda Smith said. "Thank goodness, the trees kept us busy enough."

In Northern Kentucky, the Campbell County dispatch center had one minor accident and no other calls that could be blamed on the weather. Boone County dispatchers were much more busy, but only because of people's curiosity.

"Please tell people not to call the dispatch center when the weather alarms go off," one dispatcher in Boone County said. "They need to just watch the news."