1,899 first-hand accounts of flood events in Ohio, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
A warm front was located from southwestern Indiana into northwestern Ohio through the 25th and into the early morning hours of the 26th. Several waves moved along the front, with each one generating thunderstorms.
Read the full account →An upper level impulse, abundant moisture and a south-southwesterly flow combined to allow for the development of thunderstorms. While several produced small hail and locally gusty winds, the main effect was torrential rainfall, on the order of 1 to 3 inches per hour.
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 →The final period of heavy rain deposited a half inch to an inch, in less than 3 hours, over saturated ground. In Meigs County, 80 percent of the roads in Rutland Township were affected by high water.
Read the full account →The second night of thunderstorms hit during Saturday night the 27th, into Sunday morning, the 28th. Portions of Athens, Washington, and Meigs Counties were hit hard by flooding from this round. The third night of thunderstorms was on Sunday the 28th into Monday the 29th.
Read the full account →Rain, snow melt, and ice jams flooded some streams and some roads. At 725 AM, in Harrison Co, Route 51 was closed between Bowerston and Scio. At 740 AM, Coshocton Co reported widespread flooding; Guernsey had some roads flooded; Muskingum said Wills Creek had flooded and closed…
Read the full account →After a 3 day reprieve from precipitation, more rain with embedded thunderstorms, crossed southeast Ohio during the afternoon and evening on the 11th. Rains of 1.25 to 1.75 inches were common, with isolated amounts over 2 inches. Nelsonville measured 2.25 inches.
Read the full account →Training thunderstorms dropped east and southeast across central Ohio and into northern Perry County during the late night and early morning hours of the 25th into the 26th. The focusing mechanism was a warm front.
Read the full account →Businesses and homes were flooded when strong northeasterly winds and near record high lake levels produced waves of six to eight feet, aggravating shoreline erosion and slowing discharge of stream outflow into Lake Erie.
Read the full account →Businesses and homes were flooded when strong northeasterly winds and near record high lake levels produced waves of six to eight feet, aggravating shoreline erosion and slowing discharge of stream outflow into Lake Erie.
Read the full account →Four to six inches of heavy rain from the remnants of Hurricane Fran caused flooding of streets, basements and low lying areas in several locations, especially in Cleveland, Parma, Strongsville and Olmsted Falls.
Read the full account →As a cold front moved southeast across the upper Ohio Valley, scattered severe thunderstorms developed across eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and northern West Virginia.
Read the full account →Ahead of a warm front, showers and embedded thunderstorms began before dawn on Wednesday, the 29th. The warm front moved northeast through southeast Ohio between dawn and midday. By late afternoon that warm front had lifted into the eastern Ohio and southwestern Pennsylvania.
Read the full account →A mid and upper level disturbance dropped southeast during the morning. Well south of any organized surface front, the air was moisture laden.
Read the full account →The winter solstice arrived on the 21st with near record warmth in southeast Ohio. Temperatures reached into the upper 60s to lower 70s. In a fast wind flow above the ground, a squall line raced northeast into the area after midnight.
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 →By 615 PM EDT, roads were flooded countywide. By 730 PM, Mill Creek began to flood the Lisbon area; and West Point reported 6" of rain. By 915 PM on 8th, Rte 30 from Hanoverton to Kensington was closed by flood; and SR 154 near Elkton is covered by 3 ft of water.
Read the full account →An area of low pressure moved up from the Mississippi River Valley into Ohio. The storm system had adequate moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, which increased rainfall rates to over an inch and a half per hour.
Read the full account →After receiving about a half inch of rain on the morning of the 24th, more showers and thunderstorms reached southeast Ohio during the predawn hours on the 25th.
Read the full account →During the evening and nighttime hours of May 11th, an area of low pressure located over southern Wisconsin slowly progressed northeast over the upper Great Lakes. A frontal boundary extended southeast of the low, across portions of Indiana into southern Ohio.
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 →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 →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 →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.
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