Drought, Adams
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Adams forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 38.846, -83.472 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought in Ohio, August 1 to 31, 1999
Drought conditions continued across the Ohio Valley through August with most areas receiving well below normal rainfall for the month. In some areas around 50% of crops were considered total losses.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 32 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 32
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS ILN wrote it up.
Drought conditions continued across the Ohio Valley through August with most areas receiving well below normal rainfall for the month. In some areas around 50% of crops were considered total losses. Most counties in southwest Ohio were declared Federal Disaster Areas by the US Department of Agriculture. At the time of this writing, no monetary estimates were available concerning the crop loss.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
32 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Drought, Auglaize
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Auglaize forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.561, -84.222 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Brown
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Brown forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 38.934, -83.867 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Butler
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Butler forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.439, -84.576 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Champaign
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Champaign forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.138, -83.769 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Clark
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Clark forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.917, -83.784 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Clermont
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Clermont forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.047, -84.152 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Clinton
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Clinton forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.415, -83.808 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Darke
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Darke forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.133, -84.619 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Delaware
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Delaware forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.278, -83.005 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Fairfield
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Fairfield forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.752, -82.631 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Fayette
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Fayette forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.560, -83.456 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Franklin
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Franklin forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.970, -83.009 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Greene
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Greene forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.692, -83.890 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Hamilton
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Hamilton forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.196, -84.543 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Hardin
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Hardin forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.662, -83.659 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Highland
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Highland forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.185, -83.601 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Hocking
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Hocking forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.497, -82.479 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Licking
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Licking forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.092, -82.483 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Logan
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Logan forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.388, -83.766 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Madison
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Madison forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.894, -83.400 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Mercer
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Mercer forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.540, -84.629 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Miami
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Miami forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.053, -84.229 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Montgomery
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Montgomery forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.755, -84.291 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Pickaway
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Pickaway forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.642, -83.024 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Pike
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Pike forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.077, -83.067 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Preble
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Preble forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.742, -84.648 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Ross
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Ross forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.338, -83.057 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Scioto
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Scioto forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 38.804, -82.993 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Shelby
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Shelby forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.332, -84.205 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Union
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Union forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 40.299, -83.372 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Drought, Warren
- When
- August 1, 12:00 AM EST to August 31, 11:59 PM EST
- Where
- Warren forecast zone
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.428, -84.167 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- Drought
- A drought reaching severe (D2) or worse on the US Drought Monitor, or with notable impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in South Carolina, August 1 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Texas, August 1 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Pennsylvania, August 1, 1999
- Heat in Texas, August 1 to 31, 1999
- Heat in Missouri, August 1 to 18, 1999
- Heat in Alabama, August 1 to 2, 1999
- Heat in South Carolina, August 1, 1999
- Heat in South Carolina, August 1 to 2, 1999
- Heat in Texas, August 1, 1999
- Heat in Arkansas, August 1, 1999
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Florida, August 1 to 11, 1999
- Heat and Damaging Winds in North Carolina, August 1 to 2, 1999
More
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Sources
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: 5707440, 5707441, 5707442, 5707443, 5707444, 5707445, 5707446, 5707447, 5707448, 5707449, 5707450, 5707451, 5707452, 5707453, 5707454, 5707455, 5707456, 5707527, 5707528, 5707529, 5707530, 5707531, 5707532, 5707533, 5707534, 5707535, 5707536, 5707537, 5707538, 5707539, 5707540, 5707541.