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Ohio Flood Stories

1,899 first-hand accounts of flood events in Ohio, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Mar 29, 2020

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.

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Mar 29, 2020

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.

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · May 15, 2020

Showers with isolated thunderstorms developed along and ahead of a cold front across northern Ohio. These storms produced moderate to heavy rain concentrated along the frontal boundary stalled over lakeshore counties.

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Geauga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Medina, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Medina, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Portage, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Summit, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Cuyahoga, OH · Sep 7, 2020

A cold front moved slowly southward across Lake Erie and northern Ohio into a moist environment early Labor Day morning. A strong jet aloft fueled persistent moisture advection along with significant backbuilding and training of thunderstorms across the area between about 6am…

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Flash Flood

Holmes, OH · Jun 21, 2020

Low-level convergence along an eastward-moving surface trough axis contributed to the development of scattered thunderstorms over northern Ohio during the afternoon and early evening of the 21st. Vertical wind shear was weak.

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Flood

Knox, OH · Mar 28, 2020

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.

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Flood

Marion, OH · May 19, 2020

A slow moving upper low over Illinois combined with a conveyor belt of humid air over Ohio supported widespread showers and thunderstorms over southern and central Ohio on the afternoon and evening of the 18th. The weather conditions supported not severe weather but heavy rain.

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Flood

Noble, OH · Feb 13, 2020

Low pressure rode up the Ohio Valley during the nighttime and early morning hours of February 12th to the 13th. An anomalously moist air mass with precipitable water values of near or just over an inch, combined with warm advection and right entrance region jet dynamics,…

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Noble, OH · Feb 13, 2020

Low pressure rode up the Ohio Valley during the nighttime and early morning hours of February 12th to the 13th. An anomalously moist air mass with precipitable water values of near or just over an inch, combined with warm advection and right entrance region jet dynamics,…

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Flood

Noble, OH · Feb 13, 2020

Low pressure rode up the Ohio Valley during the nighttime and early morning hours of February 12th to the 13th. An anomalously moist air mass with precipitable water values of near or just over an inch, combined with warm advection and right entrance region jet dynamics,…

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