Craig Beach records most rainfall in area

YOUNGSTOWN — Craig Beach had the most precipitation in the Mahoning Valley on Tuesday with 2.88 inches of rain.

Nowhere here was as hard-hit as the Cleveland area, which was inundated with 3.33 inches of rain Tuesday — the ninth-most rainfall in a calendar day on record, said Will Kubina, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service at Cleveland’s Hopkins International Airport.

Its records go back to 1871.

Elsewhere in Mahoning County from Tuesday through early Wednesday, 1.42 inches fell at the Canfield Fairgrounds; 1.11 inches in North Lima; 0.64 of an inch in Beloit; and 0.32 of an inch in Youngstown.

Other areas recording high amounts of rain during the same period were Brookfield Township with 1.43 inches; and Mesopotamia Township with 1.88 inches, Kubina said.

The Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, also in Trumbull, recorded 1.21 inches of rain, and Mosquito Lake had 0.24 inch.

In Columbiana County, rainfall was uniformly light, with Salem recording 0.63 inch; Summitville, 0.48; Union, 0.51; and Crestview, 0.60, Kubina said.

With the latest rain, the Youngstown-Warren area climbed close to normal precipitation for the year, down only 0.66 inch. However, since June 1, the area is 1.48 inches below normal, Kubina said.

Forecast

Today’s forecast calls for thunderstorms and showers in Mahoning and Trumbull counties. The NWS said some thunderstorms may produce heavy rainfall, accompanied by large hail and damaging winds. It will be humid with highs in the upper 80s. There is a 70 percent chance of rain.