Columbus weather: More thunderstorms on the way after record daily rainfall

Monroe Trombly, The Columbus Dispatch
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As of 8 a.m. Wednesday, Columbus had received 3.17 inches of rain of rain in the last 24 hours, breaking the prior record of 2.67 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
As of 8 a.m. Wednesday, Columbus had received 3.17 inches of rain of rain in the last 24 hours, breaking the prior record of 2.67 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

Thunderstorms and heavy rain overnight left spots of flooding and some in central Ohio without power.

As of 8 a.m. Wednesday, Columbus had received 3.17 inches of rain in the last 24 hours, breaking the prior record of 2.67 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

That much rain in that short amount of time prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood warning for Franklin County that expired at 8 a.m. Wednesday.

Flash flooding was reported by the National Weather Service to have occurred in parts of Columbus between the Short North and Downtown, and I-70 westbound was closed at I-71/U.S. 40/Broad Street due to flooding roughly between 3:30 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.

Storms led to brief outages

The overnight storms also left some households without power.

At 7:30 a.m., about 4,500 AEP Ohio customers in Franklin County were without power, about 1,500 of them in Whetstone and parts of Clintonville.

Flood watch remains in effect

Much of central Ohio, including Franklin, Delaware and Licking counties remain under flood watches through Wednesday evening as another round of thunderstorms move in from the northwest.

The storms could result in an additional two to four inches of rain, the National Weather Service reported.

And more rain, at least the chance of it, is on the way Thursday and Friday.

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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Record daily rainfall leads to some flooding in Columbus