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Flash Flood Warnings in Guernsey County, Ohio

115 flash flood warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of flash flood warnings reaches back to 1986.

Guernsey County and its neighbors

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Flash Flood Warnings
115
Busiest year
199832 flash flood warnings
Average year
4over 27 years on file

Over time

By year

Before October 2007 these were issued for whole counties, and a storm crossing three counties was often three warnings; since then one polygon follows the storm. The count changed with the practice, not only with the weather.

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2010 to 2025, 70% of flash flood reports in Guernsey County fell inside a flash flood warning issued on average 148 minutes before, and 9% of the flash flood warnings had no report inside them.

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2010110%0
2012020%
2013110%0
2015660%450%159 min
2017330%3100%40 min
201810100%0
201910100%0
2020330%475%38 min
2022110%0
2023110%0
2024220%786%253 min
2025220%0

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The latest flash flood warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 20, 9:02 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Sep 16, 11:21 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 20, 7:48 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 20, 7:05 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Aug 16, 6:22 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ4 hr
Aug 11, 8:45 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ6 hr
Aug 11, 7:18 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ7 hr
Aug 11, 12:04 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Jul 21, 2:37 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ9 hr
Jul 21, 2:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ6 hr
Jul 10, 12:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr
Jun 22, 4:06 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningPBZ3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.