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Flash Flood — Erie, OH

Feb 17, 2022

A southeastward-moving surface cold front across southern Lower MI and northern IN approached northwest OH during the early morning of the 17th. The surface pressure gradient tightened in northwest OH as the cold frontal surface trough interacted with a surface ridge axis that remained anchored near the coast of the Carolinas and Georgia. This tightening surface pressure gradient and apparently relatively-deep mechanical mixing of the boundary layer tapping into stronger flow aloft allowed surfa

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1011489). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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