2/27/2024
WT Staff
HAPPENING NOW
NWS: Strong to severe thunderstorms tonight
Large hail and damaging wind
Water news for Tuesday, February 27, 2024 updated 1112 am EST
National Weather Service Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 416 am Tuesday Feb 27
A round of strong to severe thunderstorms is expected to develop and move east across the region tonight into Wednesday morning. The
primary hazard will be large hail and damaging wind gusts.
Impacting Lorain-Cuyahoga-Lake-Geauga-Ashtabula Inland-Medina-Summit-Portage-Trumbull-Richland-Ashland-Wayne-Stark-Mahoning-Morrow-Holmes-Knox-
Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie-Southern Erie-Crawford Counties
Drinking Water Advisories
Chillicothe issued a boil water advisory Monday impacting customers connecting on Park Street from Water Street to Chestnut Street, Chestnut Street from Church Street to High Street, and Church Street from Chestnut Street to Water Street.
Harmful Algal Bloom HAB Update
The latest image captured by satellite is dated Feb 26, a perfectly clear image of west basin Lake Erie taken at a low surface wind speed, 2.6 mph.
Here we see clear water from Maumee Bay up the Michigan shoreline past Detroit, including the Canadian shore, no visible HAB activity. The Ohio shoreline is clear, open water clear of HAB activity with a small localized HAB in the east harbor Catawba Island, small localized HAB on shore near outlet of Huron River and an open water HAB visible in this image from Toledo to Vermilion-on-th-Lake where the frame ends.
Drought map from USGS Waterwatch 7-day average streamflow compared with historic flow for today's date
Ashtabula-Chagrin watershed is off the drought map Tuesday, leaving Grand River and Cuyahoga River watershed below normal Tuesday. In the west Lake Erie drainage area, Auglaize and Upper Wabash River watersheds are off the drought map Tuesday, leaving Blanchard River watershed rated below normal.
South of the height-of-land, Ohio River minor tributaries Shenango River, Little Beaver Creek, Raccoon-Symmes, Brush Whiteoak and Laughery watersheds remain rated below normal.
For the east interior area, Muskingum River basin's Hocking River is below normal, In Scioto River basin, Paint Creek is still below normal Tuesday, Tygarts watershed is back to normal. Lower Great Miami River watershed remains below normal Tuesday.
The height-of-land divide in Ohio runs from Mercer County in the west angling northeast up to Ashtabula County on the east state border. Streamflows north of the divide feed Lake Erie, flows south of the divide run to the Ohio River, part of the Mississippi River basin that drains the majority of interior North America to the Gulf of Mexico.
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