Flash Flood in Mahoning County, Ohio

Thunderstorms dumped heavy rains on Mahoning County during the early morning hours of May 22nd causing widespread flooding. This was the third round of thunderstorms to affect the county in less than 24 hours. One to three inches of rain fell during the early morning storms. This rain combined with ground already saturated from the earlier storms caused many small streams and creeks to leave their banks. In Poland, Yellow Creek went into flood damaging many homes and a library. The Mahoning River went into flood in Mill Creek Park flooding several roads and stranding several vehicles. Extensive flooding also occurred on the north side of Youngstown. Several roads and bridges were damage by flooding and over a dozen more roads had to be closed because of flooding. Dozens of homes were damaged by flood waters with ten damaged enough to be declared uninhabitable.