Event narrative (NOAA)
A second round of thunderstorms moved across Ashtabula County during the early morning hours of July 28th. Rainfall rates exceeded two inches per hour at times. Some rainfall totals from late afternoon on July 27th through the early morning hours of the 28th included: 5.88 inches in Trumbull Township; 4.30 inches in Geneva; 3.45 inches at New Lyme and 3.33 inches at Jefferson. Widespread flooding occurred across the county as runoff from this rain made it into area streams and rivers. Coffee Creek went into flood in Austinburg and caused extensive damage. At least five homes in the town were destroyed and another 20 sustained severe damage. Three homes in Jefferson had water on their ground floors after a small creek left it's banks. Flood waters on Hillyer Drive were reported to b
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.