Ohio Severe Weather
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
This week is severe weather awareness week in Ohio. This morning is the state tornado drill, scheduled for 9:50 A.M.
Some weather maps put Ohio on the eastern edge of ‘Tornado Alley’ others don’t seem to think we are part of Tornado Alley. The National Weather Service places Ohio on the eastern edge of “tornado alley,” listing an average of 16 tornadoes per year in addition to hundreds of severe thunderstorms. “
Ohio’s best known tornado was in Xenia Ohio on Easter Sunday, April 3, 1974.
Of course lots of our severe storms are not tornadoes. Parts of Ohio were recently in the news for flooding. We had a record snow fall just over two weeks ago in Columbus. We have a variety of severe weather in Ohio.
Did you know that OSU has a new weather website? Twister. My interest in weather stems in part from taking a meteorology class in college.
The Twister site forecast for today says:
“Columbus Forecast
Not as blustery with sunny intervals. High 52. Thickening clouds with rain likely by dawn on Thursday, particularly south of Columbus. Low 34. “
Listen for the tornado sirens this morning… “this is a test. It’s only a test.” They will probably be going off for real in a few weeks. Mostly in the evenings… we’ll be going into that familiar weather pattern with warm humid days, pop up showers in the late afternoon or evening… and occasional severe weather and tornado watches…
