1,899 first-hand accounts of flood events in Ohio, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
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,…
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →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.
Read the full account →On the evening of the 5th a strong cold front crossed over Lake Erie and switched winds to the northwest overnight with gusts to 30 knots. Winds gradually backed to the northeast during the day of the 6th as high pressure built over the Great Lakes Region.
Read the full account →Low pressure over the central Appalachians on the 7th moved northeast towards the New England states. On the back side of this low pressure system, a wintry mix of precipitation set up over Northeast Ohio with snow and freezing drizzle, which transitioned completely to snow by…
Read the full account →Low pressure over the central Appalachians on the 7th moved northeast towards the New England states. On the back side of this low pressure system, a wintry mix of precipitation set up over Northeast Ohio with snow and freezing drizzle, which transitioned completely to snow by…
Read the full account →Low pressure over the central Appalachians on the 7th moved northeast towards the New England states. On the back side of this low pressure system, a wintry mix of precipitation set up over Northeast Ohio with snow and freezing drizzle, which transitioned completely to snow by…
Read the full account →On the evening of the 5th a strong cold front crossed over Lake Erie and switched winds to the northwest overnight with gusts to 30 knots. Winds gradually backed to the northeast during the day of the 6th as high pressure built over the Great Lakes Region.
Read the full account →On the evening of the 5th a strong cold front crossed over Lake Erie and switched winds to the northwest overnight with gusts to 30 knots. Winds gradually backed to the northeast during the day of the 6th as high pressure built over the Great Lakes Region.
Read the full account →On the evening of the 5th a strong cold front crossed over Lake Erie and switched winds to the northwest overnight with gusts to 30 knots. Winds gradually backed to the northeast during the day of the 6th as high pressure built over the Great Lakes Region.
Read the full account →Increasing moisture quickly moved up the Ohio River Valley on the morning of the 3rd into a developing east to west frontal zone. The first of several thunderstorm complexes moved from west to east into extreme southern Ohio during the early afternoon on Tuesday, the 3rd.
Read the full account →The combination of significant prior snow cover, warm temperatures, and rainfall produced widespread tributary flooding in the Ohio river basin. Some ice jam flooding also occurred in the northern Scioto basin.
Read the full account →At a location above the dam on the Auglaize River in Defiance County, the crawl space of a house was flooded. A park was flooded by the Maumee River in the city of Defiance. This resulted in volunteers having to evacuate six families and then opening a Red Cross shelter.
Read the full account →A cold front accompanying a low pressure system swept through southeast Ohio on the afternoon and evening of June 8th. Strong to severe thunderstorms preceded the frontal passage, which imposed wind damage, large hail, an instance of flash flooding, and three areas ravaged by a…
Read the full account →A long stretch of below normal temperatures allowed a deep snowpack and significant river ice cover to develop in northern Ohio during January and early February.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed in a very humid airmass over Ohio during the late afternoon. Some of these storms became severe. With the large amount of moisture to work with, some of these storms also produced flash flooding. The storms persisted into the early evening hours.
Read the full account →Scattered severe thunderstorms developed across eastern Ohio and the northern panhandle of West Virginia during the afternoon along a warm front moving north ahead of low pressure.
Read the full account →Scattered severe thunderstorms developed across eastern Ohio and the northern panhandle of West Virginia during the afternoon along a warm front moving north ahead of low pressure.
Read the full account →Severe thunderstorms developed along a stalled frontal boundary across the Ohio Valley with widespread wind damage across eastern Ohio, western Pennsylvania, northern West Virginia, and Garrett county Maryland.
Read the full account →Rains of 1.5 to over 3 inches fell along a frontal boundary in 12 to 18 hours. The heaviest rains in southeast Ohio were over Perry, Vinton, and Jackson Counties. McArthur reported 3.25 inches of rain.
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