2/7/2025
WT Staff
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February 7, 2025 1013 am EST
Shade River back inside the channel near Chester
Streamflow Situation from the network of US Geological Survey monitors in Ohio
Shade River got back inside the channel near Chester after 27 hours of continuous flooding. The rapid rise of this river started Wednesday evening, reaching action stage for possible flooding by 4am Thursday. Still rapidly rising, the channel was breached 90 minutes later, around 530 am yesterday. Peak flow occurred during the noon hour yesterday, two and a half feet above flood stage. Receding gradually over the last 19 hours, Shade River flooding stopped around 830 this morning. This site was recording a level flow trend around five and a half feet deep until the sudden rise Wednesday night, initially reported here as a flash flood.
According to the National Weather Service, a flash flood is defined as "flooding that begins within 6 hours, and often within 3 hours, of the heavy rainfall (or other cause)." Other cause can include an ice jam or dam failure. The Shade River flood, according to the NWS definition, does not meet the definition of a flash flood, being a little over six hours from the start of the rise to action stage and another hour and a half to flood.
Record high water levels recorded yesterday on Ohio Brush Creek near West Union and Upper Twin Creek at McGaw in the south central state area have settled down overnight. In the case of Ohio Brush Creek, the water level reached action stage three hours after water level started to rise. At its peak flow, five times higher than before the event began, Ohio Brush Creek came within one foot of flooding. As it turns out, the rise occurred within the flash flood parameters, however the channel ultimately held the barrage of water and no flooding occurred, at least not at the monitored site.
Current streamflows run at seasonal normal to above normal statewide, with the exception of a dry run through the interior. The drought map is down to three watershed areas rated below normal in all of Ohio. Muskingum and Licking River watersheds remain below normal, along with Ohio River minor tributary Wheeling Creek. There are no extreme high or extreme low flows showing up in the network today.
Below freezing all day in the north, 26 F at Marion Municipal Airport in north-central Ohio, heading for a high of just 29 degrees. ees heading for a partly sunny day, high 47. Hazardous weather forecast for the weekend follows below.
Hazardous Weather Outlook issued by NWS Cleveland 411 am EST Fri Feb 7
A wintry mix including rain, snow, freezing rain, and sleet will move into the region Saturday afternoon into Saturday night. Portions of the area may receive a glaze to a few hundredths of an
inch of ice accumulation with a couple of inches of snow accumulation possible across portions of northern Ohio and northwestern Pennsylvania.
See the latest travel, roadway, and traffic conditions for Ohio, here.
Impacting Lucas-Wood-Ottawa-Sandusky-Erie-Lorain-Cuyahoga-Lake-Geauga-
Ashtabula Inland-Hancock-Seneca-Huron-Medina-Summit-Portage-Trumbull-
Wyandot-Crawford-Richland-Ashland-Wayne-Stark-Mahoning-Marion-Morrow-
Holmes-Knox-Ashtabula Lakeshore-Northern Erie-Southern Erie Counties
See WTOH.us Serious Violator list, here.
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