1,899 first-hand accounts of flood events in Ohio, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Several cold fronts passed through southeast Ohio in the span of a few days, resulting in flooding due to both excessive rainfall and a rise in rivers, creeks, and streams.
Read the full account →Several cold fronts passed through southeast Ohio in the span of a few days, resulting in flooding due to both excessive rainfall and a rise in rivers, creeks, and streams.
Read the full account →Several cold fronts passed through southeast Ohio in the span of a few days, resulting in flooding due to both excessive rainfall and a rise in rivers, creeks, and streams.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted across the middle Ohio River Valley on the morning of the 3rd. This brought a round of showers and thunderstorms. Showers lingered across central and eastern Ohio through much of the day with the warm front in the vicinity.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted across the middle Ohio River Valley on the morning of the 3rd. This brought a round of showers and thunderstorms. Showers lingered across central and eastern Ohio through much of the day with the warm front in the vicinity.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted across the middle Ohio River Valley on the morning of the 3rd. This brought a round of showers and thunderstorms. Showers lingered across central and eastern Ohio through much of the day with the warm front in the vicinity.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted across the middle Ohio River Valley on the morning of the 3rd. This brought a round of showers and thunderstorms. Showers lingered across central and eastern Ohio through much of the day with the warm front in the vicinity.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted across the middle Ohio River Valley on the morning of the 3rd. This brought a round of showers and thunderstorms. Showers lingered across central and eastern Ohio through much of the day with the warm front in the vicinity.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms moved across the region during the late afternoon and evening hours. Heavy rains accompanied the thunderstorms with rainfall rates of nearly two inches per hour with the stronger storms. The heaviest rains fell in southern Medina and northern Wayne Counties.
Read the full account →On the evening of May 12th a warm front tracking north over Lake Erie, reversed itself and moved back inland over northern Ohio. An organized convective complex with embedded supercells developed over north-central Ohio.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms overspread the region during the afternoon and evening hours as a slow moving cold front pushed through the Ohio Valley. The storms produced damaging winds, heavy rainfall and isolated tornadoes.
Read the full account →By 925 PM on 5th, CR 5 flooded near Mt Pleasant; many other roads were closed by floods and mud slides, including SR 150, 151, 213; and SR 7. Several mud slides closed Rte 7 after 2.5 inches of rain.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted through the middle Ohio River Valley on the 1st. In the wake of the warm front, hot and humid conditions prevailed on the 2nd and 3rd. Showers and thunderstorms formed each afternoon.
Read the full account →Persistent heavy rainfall of over 10 inches in less than 36 hours caused the Ohio Brush Creek to rise rapidly out its banks. The river crested at 31.0 feet which is the second highest stage on record and the highest since 1962.
Read the full account →For the second time in a week, extensive urban and lowland flooding was reported across Trumbull and Mahoning Counties. The remnants of Ivan moved across the Ohio Valley on September 17th.
Read the full account →A weak complex of thunderstorms moved south and east from central Ohio into southeastern Ohio. Large precipitatable water values were in place leading to extremely heavy rainfall rates in some of the thunderstorms. Light steering winds lead to slow storm motion.
Read the full account →A weak complex of thunderstorms moved south and east from central Ohio into southeastern Ohio. Large precipitatable water values were in place leading to extremely heavy rainfall rates in some of the thunderstorms. Light steering winds lead to slow storm motion.
Read the full account →A strong storm system brought a prolonged period of moderate to heavy rainfall to the middle Ohio River Valley on the 15th and 16th. Over a roughly 36 hour period, 1.5 to 3 inches of rain fell.
Read the full account →At 1230 PM EDT, many roads flooded near Woodsfield. As of 3 PM EDT, numerous streams continued to flood roads. Clarington also flooded. State routes 7 and 78 were closed by multiple mud slides. 17 structures damaged or destroyed.
Read the full account →A cold front with a wave of low pressure moving along it into northern Ohio produced strong storms with heavy rain on July 27, 2014. High moisture content over the region, as indicated by dew points in the upper 60s, combined with some upslope and lake enhancement to cause flash…
Read the full account →Thunderstorms moved across the region during the late afternoon and evening hours. Heavy rains accompanied the thunderstorms with rainfall rates of nearly two inches per hour with the stronger storms. The heaviest rains fell in southern Medina and northern Wayne Counties.
Read the full account →A strong frontal boundary pushed across southeast Ohio late on the 3rd. By dawn on the 4th, the frontal zone stalled just to the south. Late on the 4th and into the 5th, a low pressure wave lifted northeast, along this boundary, and through the Ohio River Valley.Rains of 1.5…
Read the full account →An area of strong low pressure moved northeast across northern Ohio during the evening hours of January 5th, 2007. Moderate to heavy rainfall accompanied this storm system.
Read the full account →Moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin interacted with a stationary front to cause heavy rain producing thunderstorms over portions of northern Ohio.
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