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The city had a cold winter, and the ground had not fully thawed, leading to a higher flood risk. Beginning late on March 24 and spanning 24 hours, about 5 inches of rain fell in Central Ohio. Flooding occurred across Ohio, with many of its major rivers flooding. By 2 a.m. on March 25, it became clear that a major flood was developing.
The soil was saturated and nearly all the rain becomes runoff, flowing into the Great Miami River and its tributaries. Monday, March 24, 1913. 7:00 am—After a day and night of heavy rains, with precipitation between 8 and 11 inches (200 and 280 mm), the river reaches its high stage for the year at 11.6 feet (3.5 m), and continues to rise.
The 24-hour rainfall total ending 7 AM on September 10, 1921 (38.2 inches) at a U.S. Weather Bureau station in Thrall remains the national official 24-hour rainfall record. Eighty-seven people drowned in and near Taylor, and 93 in Williamson County. Thrall rainfall was 23.4 inches (590 mm) during 6 hours, 31.8 inches (810 mm) during 12 hours ...
heavy rain maximum rate of 24 millimetres (0.94 in) in 30 minutes near Lisbon, Portugal, with similar intensity of 1967 event; much lower fatalities due to lessons learned [3] 14 June 1990: 26 heavy rain Shadyside, Ohio, U.S. [5] 16 June 1990: 4 thunderstorm Duck Creek Floods of 1990 near Davenport, Iowa, U.S. [6] 12 August 1997: 11 thunderstorm
This was day 3 of the record-setting aforementioned outbreak; this day alone set the record for most tornadoes in a 24-hour period. It was also the deadliest high-risk day on record as well as the deadliest single day outbreak in the United States since the Tri-State tornado outbreak on March 18, 1925. The outlook included a 45% significant ...
Licking County was the last of the tornado warnings in central Ohio, issued around 9:45 p.m. However, tornado sirens in Pataskala in western Licking County did not go off until about 10 p.m. and ...
AEP Ohio reported 12,000 customers were without power as of 11:30 p.m., with 8,500 out in Delaware County north of Columbus where a tornado warning was issued about 9 p.m. First Energy reported ...
A large swath of heavy rain fell across most of southern Minnesota during Saturday, August 18, and Sunday, August 19, with the highest totals in the far southeast counties of the state. Twenty-four-hour rainfall totals of 15.10 inches (384 mm) were recorded in Hokah, which easily broke the old state record of 10.84 inches (275 mm).