1,899 first-hand accounts of flood events in Ohio, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
New record high monthly mean water levels were set on Lakes Michigan-Huron, St. Clair, and Erie in March 2020. All three lakes surpassed their previous records set in 1986.
Read the full account →A slow-moving cold front was draped west to east across the southern Great Lakes during the day of June 18th, 2025, with low pressure near Chicago drifting east toward southern Ontario.
Read the full account →A surface trough was oriented south to north across northeast Ohio during the afternoon and early evening of August 8th, 2024, with then Tropical Depression Debby centered over the Carolinas.
Read the full account →A surface trough was oriented south to north across northeast Ohio during the afternoon and early evening of August 8th, 2024, with then Tropical Depression Debby centered over the Carolinas.
Read the full account →An anomalously-warm and moist air mass was in place across much of the Central Plains and Midwest, resulting in strong to perhaps extreme instability in addition to tropical-like precipitable water values exceeding 2.0 inches.
Read the full account →Low pressure over west central Indiana moved slowly east in Ohio on the afternoon and evening of the 21st. The boundary slowed to a stationary front across central Ohio, becoming a catalyst for storm development.
Read the full account →Weak surface low pressure slowly moved across northwest Ohio over the southern shore of Lake Erie in north central Ohio during the afternoon and evening hours of August 21st.
Read the full account →A southeastward-moving surface cold front across southern Lower MI and northern IN approached northwest OH during the early morning of the 17th.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of thunderstorms, first from a decaying morning mesoscale convective system and later forming on outflow from earlier activity, produced heavy rainfall on July 1st.
Read the full account →A surface low moved generally eastward from east-central Lower MI to the southeastern shore of Lake Huron during the evening of the 20th. Simultaneously, the low's warm front swept northeastward across southern ON and western NY toward the northern shore of Lake Ontario as the…
Read the full account →Northern Ohio resided in the warm sector as a surface trough axis moved generally eastward through the region during the afternoon and early evening of the 14th.
Read the full account →A stationary front supported widespread showers and thunderstorms across northern and central Ohio. During the overnight of June 16th into the morning of the 17th heavy showers developed along this boundary.
Read the full account →An anomalously-warm and moist air mass was in place across much of the Central Plains and Midwest, resulting in strong to perhaps extreme instability in addition to tropical-like precipitable water values exceeding 2.0 inches.
Read the full account →A surface trough was oriented south to north across northeast Ohio during the afternoon and early evening of August 8th, 2024, with then Tropical Depression Debby centered over the Carolinas.
Read the full account →Northern Ohio resided within the warm and humid sector along the northwestern flank of the Bermuda-Azores subtropical high during the late morning of the 17th through late evening of the 20th.
Read the full account →An anomalously-warm and moist air mass was in place across much of the Central Plains and Midwest, resulting in strong to perhaps extreme instability in addition to tropical-like precipitable water values exceeding 2.0 inches.
Read the full account →Multiple rounds of thunderstorms, first from a decaying morning mesoscale convective system and later forming on outflow from earlier activity, produced heavy rainfall on July 1st.
Read the full account →An anomalously-warm and moist air mass was in place across much of the Central Plains and Midwest, resulting in strong to perhaps extreme instability in addition to tropical-like precipitable water values exceeding 2.0 inches.
Read the full account →A stationary front supported widespread showers and thunderstorms across northern and central Ohio. During the overnight of June 16th into the morning of the 17th heavy showers developed along this boundary.
Read the full account →A cold front moved down from the upper Great Lakes region and produced a broken line of strong to severe thunderstorms. These storms produced several reports of wind damage across northeast Ohio.
Read the full account →Dew points across the region during the morning of the event were in the lower 70s with high moisture content throughout the air column. A prefrontal trough moved southward into the region during the morning hours of the 13th, triggering convection.
Read the full account →Weak surface low pressure slowly moved across northwest Ohio over the southern shore of Lake Erie in north central Ohio during the afternoon and evening hours of August 21st.
Read the full account →During the evening of June 24th, a front wavered in a north-south manner in vicinity of Lake Erie while separating a very warm and humid air mass to the south from a somewhat cooler and less humid air mass to the north.
Read the full account →A southeastward-moving surface cold front across southern Lower MI and northern IN approached northwest OH during the early morning of the 17th.
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