Flood, Defiance
- When
- January 22, 10:00 PM EST to January 31, 12:00 AM EST
- Where
- Defiance forecast zone
- Property damage
- $500
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 41.324, -84.490 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
At a location above the dam on the Auglaize River in Defiance County, the crawl space of a house was flooded. A park was flooded by the Maumee River in the city of Defiance.
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The episode as NWS IWX wrote it up.
At a location above the dam on the Auglaize River in Defiance County, the crawl space of a house was flooded. A park was flooded by the Maumee River in the city of Defiance. This resulted in volunteers having to evacuate six families and then opening a Red Cross shelter. A low area on the Tiffin River was flooded near Evansport. On the afternoon of the 23rd, flooding occurred on the first floor of six homes on Catherine Drive in Liberty Center (Washington Township). Damage was mainly to carpets, walls, and furniture.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
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