3/31/2024
WT Staff
HAPPENING NOW
WT USA network flood update
NWS: Multiple rounds of thunderstorms expected Monday
Water news for Sunday, March 31, 2024 133 pm EDT
National Weather Service Hazardous Weather Outlook issued 509 am EDT March 31
Multiple rounds of showers and thunderstorms are expected Monday night through Tuesday. This repeated rainfall could lead to flooding concerns, especially for Monday into Tuesday. The track of each low is uncertain which makes it difficult to time the severe potential. However there are
indications that Tuesday afternoon and evening will have the greatest chances for severe storms.
Impacting Lucas-Wood-Ottawa-Sandusky-Erie-Lorain-Cuyahoga-Geauga-Hancock-Seneca-Huron-Medina-Summit-Portage-Trumbull-Wyandot-Crawford-Richland-Ashland-Wayne-Stark-Mahoning-Marion-Morrow-Holmes-Knox Counties
Hazardous Spills
4500 gallons of fertilizer reported spilled March 28 in St Mary's Township of Auglaize County. This spill occured in the Maumee watershed during the critical condition for the Lake Erie HAB. More to follow.
Spills in Ohio are reported to the 24 hour emergency spill hotline with response handled by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency 24/7 at 1-800-282-9378 or 614-224-0946. Anyone with knowledge of a spill of hazardous material is to make a report. Refer to the Spill button to the right of the map for more details on the latest incidents reported to OEPA.
Streamflow Situation provisional data supplied by USGS
Streamflows in central Ohio have returned to seasonal normal, coming to resemble the east side of state over the last twenty four hours. The west side Great Miami Basin remains below normal to much below normal Sunday with one extreme low recorded in the Lower Great Miami watershed at Camden.
Drought Map USGS 7-day average streamflow against seasonal average
The drought map appears much the same as yesterday, extreme hydrologic drought grips Blanchard River watershed, severe drought has come over Auglaize River watershed Sunday, joining Upper Wabash. The remainder of Lake Erie west drainage basin remains in moderate drought with St Josephs, Sandusky and Huron-Vermilion rated below normal. The east side is off the drought map, including most of Muskingum River Basin and the Upper Ohio minor tributries to Raccoon-Symmes watershed in the south at Lawrence and Gallia Counties, rated severe drought. Walhonding River watershed is the one part of Muskingum basin on the drought map Sunday, rated below normal. Scioto and Great Miami basins are still rated mostly below normal, each having an area of moderate drought, Paint Creek in Scioto basin and Lower Great Miami for the Miami basin.
Flood Tracker provisional data from USGS streamflow monitors
Twenty-eight streamflow gauges record flooding in the USA Sunday, down from thirty-four yesterday. WT tracks the nation's most common natural disaster dynamics through New York, Ohio, Georgia and Louisiana. As of this report, ten monitors indicate active flooding; 7 in Georgia and 3 in Louisiana.
Ohio's current streamflow map is coming back to normal in central state Sunday, the flows had been below normal to much below normal through the central and west state over the last few days. Multipe rounds of thunderstorms are forecast for Monday and Tuesday in northwest Ohio with a possibility of flooding. This been very dry through the month of March. As of this report there are no active flooding stations or high flows measured in Ohio State network of the USGS.
New York State streamflows are back to seasonal normal in the east, two monitors continue at much above normal on Long Island. West interior remains much below normal Sunday with no change to the drought map overnight. Moderate hydrologic drought remains on Alleghany River watershed in the southwest, Oswego River - Finger Lakes, Chemung and Genesee Rivers watersheds remain rated below normal on the drought map Sunday.
In Louisiana, Bayou Dorcheat retired from flooding near Springhill overnight. In Region 1 northwest LA watershed, Bayou Bodcau is a little less than six feet above flood stage near Shreveport. Pearl River on the east state border continues to flood near Bogalusa in Washington Parish and downstream Town of Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish.
Georgia, Day 25: Gulf of Mexico basin Ochlockonee River is still flooding near Concord, Florida, running a hair over on Sunday at noon. On the Atlantic side of the drainage divide, Alabaha River flooding has ended overnight at GA 203 near Blackshear. Altamaha and tributary Ohoopee are still flooding near Baxley and Reidsville respectively, Savannah is still flooding near Cylo and the Little Satilla and Satilla Rivers are still flooding near Offerman and Atkinson.
See black tags on the map for active flood, blue for high flow, 99th percentile or more.
Drinking Water Advisories
Jefferson County: The Village of Rayland came under a BWA after a water main break at Adams Lane and State Route 150. The Village of Rayland water system serves a population of 417 residents from a groundwater purchased source.
Lucas County: A portion of the village of Whitehouse was under a boil advisory after a water main break at Waterville Street and Pelton Drive. Whitehouse Village water system serves 5200 residents from surface water purchased.
See yellow tags on the map for more boil water advisories.
USGS Provisional Data Statement
Data are provisional and subject to revision until they have been thoroughly reviewed and received final approval. Current condition data relayed by satellite or other telemetry are automatically screened to not display improbable values until they can be verified.
Provisional data may be inaccurate due to instrument malfunctions or physical changes at the measurement site. Subsequent review based on field inspections and measurements may result in significant revisions to the data.
Data users are cautioned to consider carefully the provisional nature of the information before using it for decisions that concern personal or public safety or the conduct of business that involves substantial monetary or operational consequences. Information concerning the accuracy and appropriate uses of these data or concerning other hydrologic data may be obtained from the USGS.
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