Through the months of 2005 and 2006 several weather events occured during this time period. Severe Thunderstorm outbreaks, heat waves, blizzards, landslides, ice storms, and short-living tornadoes occured during the years of 2005 and 2006 in the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan. The governor of the state of Ohio issued several State of Emergencies throughout 2005 and 2006 because of these weather events. Disaster Areas were issued immediatley in some areas recieveing rounds of flooding or ice storms.

Weather Events in 2005

2005 will be remembered as a forgettable winter with major ice storms, flooding, and winter weather events.

January

January 05, 2005 - Auglaize, Hardin, Putnam, and especially Allen counties recieved power outages after a major ice storm anywhere from two to seven days. Almost everyone had trees or tree limbs down in their yard. Roofs were damaged by limbs, or water in their basements after sump pumps lost power.

January 06, 2005 - The ice continued overnight meaning that residents remained with no power. Several accidents were reported in the ice storm area. After all was done, the clean up was slow because cold temperatures and snow reamined immenit in these areas.

January 14, 2005 - The Ohio River recieved abundants amounts of rainfall causing the river to overflow. State of Emergencies were being issued for cities along the Ohio River. This was not just in the state of Ohio, but in Illinois, Kentucky, and Indiana.

April

April 22, 2005 - Severe thunderstorms occured in southern Ohio with large hail and damaging winds. Hamilton County, Ohio recieved the hail the size of an inch and three quarters.

May

May 13, 2005 - Severe thunderstorms once again arrived in the state of Ohio on May 13th. The Mansfield, Ohio area recieved damaging winds in which blew down large trees and damage to a racetrack. A tornado also occured in Scioto County which damaged several old trees in the county. A barn's roof also was ripped off.

June

June 05, 2005 - A derecho raced across Extreme Northwest Ohio on this day producing staright line winds in which caused widespread damage. Power outages were also reported. Other areas in the state also recieved storm damage, but not as considerable.

June 14, 2005 - Southeatern Ohio recieved a line of severe thunderstorms with wind gusts near 60 mph. Some locations seeing over 60 mph. Hail as large as one inch was reported in Coshocton County.

June 28, 2006 - Severe thunderstorms producing large hail and damaging winds occured in the Akron-Canton area, which is part of the Cleveland Metropolitan Area. Quarter inch sized hail was reported in Canton, Ohio.

Weather Events in 2006

2006 was a year with several rounds of severe thunderstorms, flooding, and heat waves.

June