The leftovers of Hurricane Beryl are skirting by Ohio this week. The state does, on occasion, experience the direct effects of tropical systems – yes, even ones that are still technically tropical! Unfortunately, this one’s bringing a disappointingly low amount of rain here, enough that I finally broke down and got out the lawn sprinkler.
According to NOAA’s Historical Hurricane Tracks tool, the centers of 26 tropical or formerly tropical systems are known to have passed through Ohio.
Gray lines are post-tropical systems, blue lines are tropical depressions and green lines are tropical storms. As you can see, most of them were no longer tropical in our region.
The most recent was Nate in 2017, which was still a tropical depression when it entered the southern reaches of Ohio. It dropped over an inch of rain for much of the state.
Only a few tropical storms have passed over Ohio; Hugo was the last one, in 1989.
In central Ohio, the centers of eight systems are known to have passed within 50 miles of Columbus. Just like for the state of Ohio as a whole, the most recent one was Nate in 2017. Isidore was a tropical depression when its center passed nearby in 2002.
