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Flash Flood in Huron County, Ohio

Flash Flood March 14, 2024 · Huron County, Ohio

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Pictures and a video of 6 to 12 inches of flowing water over Alpha Road near Greenwich, OH due to a stream/ditch overflowing its banks. Radar estimated 2 to 2.5 inches of rainfall in a 2 to 3 hour period.

The wider storm

A cold front drifted south-southeastward from near the northern shore of Lake Erie and southern Lower MI to near the southern shore of Lake Erie and far-northwestern OH during the evening of the 14th as a warm and relatively-moist sector preceded the front in northern OH. Multicell and supercell thunderstorms occurred along and ahead of the front, and persisted generally eastward. Severe hail, some large, and isolated straight-line convective wind damage occurred as the storms encountered weak to moderate MUCAPE, relatively-steep midlevel lapse rates near 7C/km, and moderate to strong effective bulk shear. Three separate supercells spawned a tornado amidst favorably-strong, surface-based effective storm relative helicity and favorably-low mixed layer lifting condensation levels less than 1500 meters AGL. The training supercell thunderstorms with heavy rainfall produced isolated flash flooding as well.

Began near Greenwich (41.0472, -82.5040).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

3 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1167029. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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