1,899 first-hand accounts of flood events in Ohio, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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 →A deep upper trough and low pressure moving across the Ohio Valley pushed warm and humid air northward ahead of a cold front moving east with the surface low.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A powerful cold front and upper level trough pushed across the Upper Ohio Valley on July 10th producing widespread severe weather and flash flooding from eastern Ohio, northern West Virginia, and western Pennsylvania. This included 3 separate tornadoes.
Read the full account →A quasi-stationary front and upper level divergence became the focus for showers and thunderstorms across the region late on the 23rd through the early morning hours of the 24th.
Read the full account →As a result of morning showers and clouds, a significant temperature contrast existed west to east across Ohio by mid afternoon. Readings were in the mid 80s in western Ohio, but only in the 70s in eastern counties.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary was the focus for showers and thunderstorms to develop and train across portions of eastern Ohio, the northern West Virginia panhandle, and western Pennsylvania producing flash flooding and flooding.
Read the full account →A stalled frontal boundary was the focus for showers and thunderstorms to develop and train across portions of eastern Ohio, the northern West Virginia panhandle, and western Pennsylvania producing flash flooding and flooding.
Read the full account →Heavy thunderstorm rain that began in May continued to fall on saturated ground, causing flooding of streets, streams, homes, fields and low lying areas. Many roads were closed and berms washed out forcing the closing of some schools.
Read the full account →Heavy thunderstorm rain that began in May continued to fall on saturated ground, causing flooding of streets, streams, homes, fields and low lying areas. Many roads were closed and berms washed out forcing the closing of some schools.
Read the full account →A large area of rain and embedded thunderstorms moved from central into northern Ohio during the afternoon and early evening hours as warm front lifted north over Lake Erie.
Read the full account →A large area of rain and embedded thunderstorms moved from central into northern Ohio during the afternoon and early evening hours as warm front lifted north over Lake Erie.
Read the full account →A line of thunderstorms with high rainfall rates produced flash flooding in the city of Tiffin. Coming off a near record wet June, the saturated ground could not hold the volume of runoff produced by an estimated 2 to 3 inches within an hour and a half.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms dumped between two and four inches of rain on southern Wood and northern Hancock Counties during the late afternoon and early evening hours of August 27th. Spotters in McComb (Hancock County) measured three and a half inches of rain between 4 and 7 p.m.
Read the full account →Doppler Radar estimates of 3 to 4 inches of rain fell over southern Crawford and central Richland Counties between 830 PM and 1130 PM with rainfall rates as much as 4.8/hr around 930 PM.
Read the full account →A warm front lifted north across northern Ohio during the afternoon hours of May 27th. Showers and thunderstorms developed along this front. A few of the thunderstorms became severe and locally heavy rainfall was also reported.
Read the full account →Rains of 2 to 4 inches fell in about an 18 hour period. A strong frontal zone was in the vicinity, as low pressure moved up the Ohio Valley. Southerly winds pulled low level moisture north from Tennessee and Kentucky .
Read the full account →The remnants of Ivan moved across the Ohio Valley on September 17th. A stationary front extending northeast from the low caused heavy rains to develop and fall on most of northeastern Ohio from late on September 16th through the 17th.
Read the full account →The remnants of Hurricane Katrina dumped locally heavy rains on portions of Northeast Ohio. The rain began during the morning hours of the 30th and tapered off after daybreak on the 31st.
Read the full account →The remnants of Hurricane Katrina dumped locally heavy rains on portions of Northeast Ohio. The rain began during the morning hours of the 30th and tapered off after daybreak on the 31st.
Read the full account →The remnants of Hurricane Katrina dumped locally heavy rains on portions of Northeast Ohio. The rain began during the morning hours of the 30th and tapered off after daybreak on the 31st.
Read the full account →A line of showers and thunderstorms dumped one to nearly three inches of rain on portions of Summit, Stark, Portage and Mahoning Counties. A spotter in Munroe Falls (Summit County) measured a total of 2.76 inches of rain between 3:30 and 6:30 a.m.
Read the full account →A line of showers and thunderstorms dumped one to nearly three inches of rain on portions of Summit, Stark, Portage and Mahoning Counties. A spotter in Munroe Falls (Summit County) measured a total of 2.76 inches of rain between 3:30 and 6:30 a.m.
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