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Tornado damage in Lorain, Ohio The Xenia, Ohio tornado from the 1974 Super Outbreak. This tornado was rated by Ted Fujita himself as an F6 , but it was retroactively downgraded to F5 [ 1 ] Tornadoes in the state of Ohio are relatively uncommon, with roughly 16 tornadoes touching down every year since 1804, the year with the first recorded event ...
Progression of a well-anticipated high risk event across the Central Plains on April 14, 2012. This event ultimately produced 85 tornadoes that day, one of which killed six people. A high risk severe weather event is the greatest threat level issued by the Storm Prediction Center (SPC) for convective weather events in the United States. On the ...
This flood is still the flood of record for the Great Miami River watershed. The volume of water that passed through the river channel during this storm equaled the monthly flow over Niagara Falls. [3] The Great Miami River watershed covers nearly 4,000 square miles (10,000 km 2) and 115 miles (185 km) of channel that feeds into the Ohio River. [4]
Thursday night, severe weather led to 20 tornado warnings across Ohio, leaving a trail of storm damage and cutting power to thousands. Severe storms and confirmed tornadoes in Mercer, Crawford and ...
A 100-year flood is a flood event that has on average a 1 in 100 chance (1% probability) of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. [1] A 100-year flood is also referred to as a 1% flood. [2] For coastal or lake flooding, a 100-year flood is generally expressed as a flood elevation or depth, and may include wave effects. For river systems ...
The following is a list of major snow and ice events in the United States that have caused noteworthy damage and destruction in their wake. The categories presented below are not used to measure the strength of a storm, but are rather indicators of how severely the snowfall affected the population in the storm's path.
Tornadoes ran rampant across the Midwest Thursday, March 14, 2024. See the damage left in the wake of severe storms in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.
A massive winter storm pummeled a large portion of the country over the weekend, burying many cities in the Midwest under several inches of snow before moving to the Mid-Atlantic region Monday ...