Weather Event in Ohio: 7/11/06

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On the evening of July 11, 2006, two tornadoes were confirmed in Carlisle, Ohio and Miami township in west central Ohio. In northwestern Ohio flooding was also occurring in the Toledo area. Resulting, flood advisories were issued by the National Weather Service for several counties. The residents of Toledo also debated on a lawsuit against the city due to the fact this happened several other times and nothing was done to protect the city for future flooding problems.

[edit] Flooding Problems

It was a warm and humid day with partial hazy sunshine through the midday hours followed by gradual increasing cloudiness. An area of showers and scattered thunderstorms moved slowly east through northwest and north-central Ohio during the afternoon and gradually fizzled out as additional scattered thunderstorms developed during the peak heating hours over northeast Ohio.

During the evening, showers and isolated thunderstorms were becoming more numerous over northern Ohio and a wet night is anticipated. A Flash Flood Watch was in effect on the evening of July 11 and Wednesday for the central highland and northeast inland counties of Ohio. Flood warnings are in effect for southern Richland and southern Ashland counties due to excessively heavy rainfall that occurred in these areas.

Many homes in the Toledo area were affected. Streets and highways were closed down, distrupting downtown traffic. This also happened in future months and many residents begun lawsuit propsals against the city of Toledo if something was not done to insure the residents that this situation would not happen again. Some areas across Ohio were looking at rainfall amounts around seven inches.

[edit] Tornadoes

Tornadoes were also reported as storms passed through Ohio on July 11, 2006.

A tornado warning was issued by the National Weather Service for southwestern Montgomery County until 8:15 p.m that night. [1] The warning stated that storm storm spotters spotted a tornado near the Dayton Mall and that radar indicated that the tornado producing storm was located near Woodbourne-Hyde Parkand and nearly stationary.

Resulting, there was structural damage to some buildings part of the Dayton Mall. Several trees were down in addition to the building damage. There were also reports in Maineville, Ohio of a tornado or a funnel-like cloud.