Erie storm history

Widespread flooding across western and central Erie County, including the cities of Sandusky and Huron, Margaretta Township, Perkins Township, Oxford Township, and Huron Township. Officials estimated hundreds of homes impacted by basement flooding per local media reports. Widespr…

A thunderstorm downburst caused widespread wind damage in the northeast portion of Sandusky. The damage swatg was a half mile wide and approximately 2.25 miles long. Numerous large trees and limbs were brought down across the city with some falling on buildings causing roof damag…

High winds associated with the remnants of Hurricane Ike began during the early evening hours of September 14th and continued through late evening. Peak wind gusts were estimated to be around 60 mph with the strongest winds occurring between 6 and 8 pm. Damage in the county was e…

Devastating and widespread flooding developed in Erie County on June 22nd as runoff from the heavy thunderstorm rains that fell during the evening of the 21st made it's way into area streams and rivers. Initially much of the flooding in the county was in urban areas where water s…

Thunderstorms dumped torrential rains on Erie County during the evening of June 21st. Rainfall rates with the stronger storms exceeded three inches per hour. As much as 7 to 9 inches of rain fell on Perkins Township with 4 to 6 inches over the remainder of the county. Most of thi…

OH-60 flooded north of Mason Road south of Vermilion. Radar estimated 2 to 2.5 inches of rainfall in about one hour, which equates to a roughly 50 year recurrence interval.

Several tree branches downed in Milan.

Tree limbs and power poles downed in Berlin Heights.

Hail up to penny-size about 2-miles SSE of Bay View.

Large trees and large tree limbs downed on Kelleys Island.

Multiple road closures due to flash flooding in eastern Erie County, including in Vermilion and Florence Township. Main Road closed at Chappel Creek due to flooding of the creek. Sperry Road closed between OH-60 and the Erie/Lorain county line. Reports of cars stranded in flooded…

Large tree downed onto house and injured two inhabitants in Sandusky. Multiple large tree limbs downed elsewhere in Sandusky.

Several trees and power poles downed in Castalia.

Hail up to golf ball-size near the intersection of OH-2 and OH-4 on the SSW side of Sandusky.

Windows blown-out and TV antenna downed at residence near the intersection of OH-2 and OH-4 on the SSW side of Sandusky.

Hail up to golf ball-size near the intersection of Fox Road and Hayes Avenue (OH-4), between Sandusky and I-90.

Several power poles downed near intersection of Fox Road and Hayes Avenue (OH-4), between Sandusky and I-90.

Trees downed along Cedar Point Drive.

Several large trees uprooted and/or snapped along Birchwood Drive in Sandusky South.

Trees downed in Castalia.

Numerous trees and limbs snapped, and a large cover was removed from the pool, at Plum Brook Country Club. This damage occurred about one-mile southeast of Fairview Lanes.

Numerous trees downed along OH-2, about four-miles northeast of Berlin Heights.

Tree downed about one-mile northwest of Huron.

Several power poles snapped along U.S. Route 6, about two-miles WSW of Sandusky.

Numerous trees downed in Castalia.

Trees, tree limbs, and utility poles downed about four-miles SSW of Huron.

An Arctic cold front swept through the area shortly before midnight December 23rd. Low pressure along this front tracked over Lake Erie early in the morning on December 23rd and rapidly intensified through the day while slowly lifting northeast across Ontario. With the frontal pa…

Wind chills plunged below 0 around 4 AM December 23rd and did not warm back above 0 until the early morning hours of December 26th. A wind chill of -31 degrees was reported at 12:00 PM December 23rd on a weather station in Sandusky. A warming center was opened in Sandusky in resp…

Several trees downed at Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky.

Several trees downed in Huron.

Large tree snapped halfway up in Huron.

Two-foot diameter tree snapped in half about four-miles north of Milan.

Trees downed in Castalia.

Peak wind gust of 58 mph recorded in Huron.

An ice jam had formed upstream of Vermilion near Mill Hollow and Bacon Woods reservation earlier in the month. Above normal temperatures and increased river flows due to snow melt and precipitation caused the ice jam to release, sending flood waters and ice chunks downstream to V…

A prolonged winter storm occurred from late February 2nd through early February 4th, 2022 as multiple waves of low pressure tracked along a slow moving cold front. Rain changed to snow in the early evening hours on February 2nd as temperatures fell below freezing. Snow continued …

Sandusky Fire Department reported a roof had blown off a commercial building on the south side of Sandusky. A trained weather spotter measured a 58 mph wind gust at 1:25 pm.

Public report of a peak gust of 67 mph from QLCS. Gust was recorded by personal weather station on Kelleys Island.

The Huron River came out of banks in Erie County across the Franklin Flats community and some campgrounds in the area. The USGS river gage crested at 18.5 feet.

Two rounds of snow moved through northern Ohio on February 15 and 16. The first round on the morning of the 15th brought a quick inch or two of snow to the region. A more impressive second round of snow entered during the afternoon and evening hours, bringing snowfall rates in ex…

Rain changed over to snow during the early afternoon hours of November 30 in North Central Ohio, as low pressure moved just east of the area. During the early morning hours of December 1, heavy, wet snow overspread the region with visibility dropping to one-quarter of a mile or l…

Rain changed over to snow during the afternoon of November 30 and snow began accumulating over Erie County. This snow continued into December 1, when significant accumulations and impacts occurred. Please see the December 1 Winter Storm Write-Up for Erie County for additional det…

Quarter-size hail at the mouth of Old Woman Creek, which is between Huron and Ruggles Beach.

Quarter-size hail in Huron.

Around 10 AM on the 14th the water level in Toledo reached 78.4 inches above the normal water level based on the NOS gage site station 9063085. Water levels rose again to 77.5 inches due to the slosh effect around 6 PM on the 14th. This resulted in rapid water rises flooding road…