Flash Flood in Ohio, August 25, 1998

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

None recorded

Crop damage

None recorded

Events

1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 78 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:12 UTC.

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Flash Flood

Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

• Tornadoes and Flood in Michigan, August 25, 1998$2.2 million · F2 · 15 events
• Tornado and Hail in Ohio, August 25, 1998$415,000 · F2 · 21 events
• Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Indiana, August 25, 1998$900,000 · F1 · 4 events
• Damaging Wind in Ohio, August 25, 19983 injured · $400,000 · 1 event
• Flash Flood in Ohio, August 25, 1998$1.0 million · 1 event
• Flood in Ohio, August 25 to 27, 1998$500,000 · 1 event
• Tornado in Ohio, August 25, 1998$300,000 · F0 · 1 event
• Flood and Damaging Winds in Ohio, August 25, 1998$220,000 · 64 kt wind · 4 events
• Flash Flood in Ohio, August 25, 1998$200,000 · 1 event
• Lightning Strike in Michigan, August 25, 1998$125,000 · 1 event
• Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Connecticut, August 25 to 26, 1998$90,000 · 55 kt wind · 5 events
• Flash Flood in Ohio, August 25, 1998$100,000 · 1 event

Every storm in Ohio in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Ohio, August 1998

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5663956.