1,899 first-hand accounts of flood events in Ohio, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A mid-level shortwave trough moved across the northern Great Lakes with a belt of stronger flow moving through the southern Great Lakes. Scattered thunderstorms|developed through midday into the afternoon. Forecast soundings showed some low-level hodograph curvature.
Read the full account →A mid-level shortwave trough moved across the northern Great Lakes with a belt of stronger flow moving through the southern Great Lakes. Scattered thunderstorms|developed through midday into the afternoon. Forecast soundings showed some low-level hodograph curvature.
Read the full account →Stationary boundary and near climatological max precpitable water led to another round of showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall on the 15th.
Read the full account →Stationary boundary and near climatological max precpitable water led to another round of showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall on the 15th.
Read the full account →Stationary boundary and near climatological max precpitable water led to another round of showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall on the 15th.
Read the full account →Stationary boundary and near climatological max precpitable water led to another round of showers and thunderstorms with very heavy rainfall on the 15th.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms flourished across southeast Ohio on the afternoon and evening of June 21st as a cold front glided through the region. Most of the storms became stronger after passing over the Ohio River, but there were a few instances of damaging wind gusts that resulted in downed…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms flourished across southeast Ohio on the afternoon and evening of June 21st as a cold front glided through the region. Most of the storms became stronger after passing over the Ohio River, but there were a few instances of damaging wind gusts that resulted in downed…
Read the full account →The remnants of Tropical Storm Fred moved into the area late on August 17th into early August 18th leading to heavy rainfall in the Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms flourished across southeast Ohio on the afternoon and evening of June 21st as a cold front glided through the region. Most of the storms became stronger after passing over the Ohio River, but there were a few instances of damaging wind gusts that resulted in downed…
Read the full account →Scattered showers and thunderstorms occurred during the afternoon and early evening of the 25th, originally triggered by a lake breeze boundary. These showers and storms occurred in a moderately-unstable air mass with moderate to strong DCAPE.
Read the full account →Unusually strong upper low for July dropped from the Great Lakes into western PA. A trowal/deformation zone set up over most of the area outside of southeast Ohio, producing torrential rainfall.
Read the full account →A warm front over central Ohio on the morning of Saturday March 28, 2020 was the focus for several rounds of elevated thunderstorms through the early afternoon hours.
Read the full account →An unseasonably warm and moist air mass was in place across the region during the morning hours of March 1st. Showers and thunderstorms developed across the Ohio Valley during the early morning hours as a strong low pressure system lifted northeast into the Great Lakes region.
Read the full account →A strengthening area of high pressure of James Bay extended down over Lake Erie. At the same time, an area of low pressure over the Central Plains increased the pressure gradient over the local area resulting in increased winds out of the east northeast.
Read the full account →A slow moving low pressure system positioned over Tennessee and Kentucky caused multiple heavy bands of rain to move into southeast Ohio through the majority of the work week.
Read the full account →Periods of rain that occurred from Friday February 26th through the morning of Monday March 1st due to multiple disturbances caused flooding to occur across southeast Ohio.
Read the full account →Periods of rain that occurred from Friday February 26th through the morning of Monday March 1st due to multiple disturbances caused flooding to occur across southeast Ohio.
Read the full account →Periods of rain that occurred from Friday February 26th through the morning of Monday March 1st due to multiple disturbances caused flooding to occur across southeast Ohio.
Read the full account →Showers and thunderstorms began to develop in southeast Ohio on the morning of August 7th, continuing into the afternoon ahead of and along a cold front. Gusty winds within strong to severe storms downed several trees, and blew a porch off of one home in Gallia County.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure moved east along a stationary front across Indiana and Ohio on the evening of the 19th. A strong storm convective complex in Indiana moved southeast into central Ohio as a result.
Read the full account →A hot and humid airmass over the Ohio Valley was broken up on the 10th by a shortwave trough and a surface cold front that came moved through during the afternoon hours.
Read the full account →An arctic cold front approached and passed through the area February 3rd into February 4th. Multiple waves of low pressure moved along this front, allowing for a slow moving system which provided plenty of rainfall, heavy at times, to the Ohio Valley.
Read the full account →An arctic cold front approached and passed through the area February 3rd into February 4th. Multiple waves of low pressure moved along this front, allowing for a slow moving system which provided plenty of rainfall, heavy at times, to the Ohio Valley.
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