Midway is flooded!

Yeah, looking at the radar, we're in for some interesting weather tonight in all of Northern Ohio.

A bunch of really bad weather just missed me here in Berne, IN. Looks like it ran to the north.

Everybody run!

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I was surprised that a tornado didn't drop down from that cloiud Jeff. I have never seen a cloud that ominous before. The quality of video is phenominal. Gotta love HD

I was in the park during the storm that originally started this topic (Monday). I was actually over by Millennium, my cousin and I were trying to get in a ride before the storm hit. As soon as we got to the line, they closed it off (it was already raining lightly). At first we were going to sit it out like you always see people do, but then the gate worker came and told us that Sandusky was exactly in the red on the radar, and that we were "stroonnngly advised" to seek shelter. It started raining even heavier, joined by 1-2 inch diameter hailstones. We joined some people that were hiding out underneath the locker awning thing, and waited there for about an hour. At its worst we couldn't see much further past Mantis (if you can visualize the area), that's how hard the rain was coming down.

Everywhere that we could see (basically, that part of Frontier Trail and underneath the lockers) was flooded up to about ankle height. After it stopped raining for the most part, we went to walk around and check out the park. It was EMPTY, there was literally no one there. Over by SkyHawk area it was still flooded. We never made it around to the main midway, but since it seems to be on somewhat of a decline from everywhere else I wouldn't doubt that it was flooded.

I didn't see any cool cloud formations, but there were some seriously awesome lightning strikes. They would streak across the sky, kind of like cloud-to-cloud lightning only without the clouds. There was one that looked like it struck over in the Marina or on the causeway or somewhere close like that. I was hoping to see a TTD strike, but no such luck :)

Little side note, we ended up being on the second Millie train and then rode it four times in a row in under 45 minutes (in the rain, haha). It was a lot of fun, it was pretty much the same group of people that just kept coming around and going again.

Sandusky right now is under a tornado watch until 12am 6/21/06 and a flood watch until 4am 6/22/06

The western counties along the lake michigan shore,where i live didnt get one drop of rain, and my lawn is crying fowl

It's not done yet, we may get a 2nd round. We still have the watch until 12am.

Travis Lea said:
I was surprised that a tornado didn't drop down from that cloiud Jeff.

Well if you watch closely, you'll notice that there isn't any rotation associated with it. I've seen similar clouds before that rolled as they moved, and according to those Skywarn HAM freaks, did later spawn a tornado, but this one was pretty benign. No warnings to speak of.

Our datacenter took a direct hit by lightning this morning as I was getting ready to leave. Blech.

Erie County is under a flood warning right now. I'm sure it's a similar looking event tonight at the park.

I did get under some good storms today, but I didn't see anything more than some rotation and downburst damage.

Well by looking at the cleveland cam, cedar point is getting severl good thunderstorms at the current time, with great pics of bolts of lightning

Sandusky had a thunderstorm warning until 10:00pm edt. that has expired. This the 2nd round coming through michigan right now, we are getting hammered once again.

Sandusky is still under a:

~A TORNADO WATCH UNTIL 12:00AM EDT (6/21/06)

~ A FLOOD ADVISORY UNTIL 12:00AM EDT (6/21/06)

~A FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 AM EDT THURSDAY (6/22/06)

We had it bad over here in Toledo. Most all major intersections in the city we're flooded. Even the kitchen at the hospital where I work had water all over. Hope Cedar Point is ready, looks like its going that way.

Yeah, a bunch of county's her ein michigan including mine just got a flood advisory until 1:15am et. 6-22-06

I love that you can get weather updates on this site now!! My cubbies finally won a game thanks to the rain in Cleveland.

Anyone know if Cedar Point if flooded again? Plus, I was thinking is it anyway we can making the Cedar Point weather advisory thread. If someone see's a advisory like a severe storm warning, or wind warning, or something they can post it their so everyone know whats up with the weather at Cedar Point? I don't know it might sound like a dorky idea but that is what I am.

Wow, the point must have gotten pounded because on the SkyHawk cam, it's set to archive the image from 7:30, and it seriously looks like it should be from about 2 AM! Lets hope this doesn't progress Maggie's sinking anymore ;)

The Skyhawk Cam looks as dark as night everytime a storm comes through...

Here in South Bend we had several trees down, and 3/4" hail this evening... Winds gusted up to 78 mph...

This thread is quickly becoming a weather nerd's paradise...

I like it...

The park had a thunderstorm roll through early today and then got humid and sunny. On my way home around 7:30, we hit the nastiest looking storm on the Turnpike. The clouds were pitch black, it was pouring rain, windy, and lightning strikes everywhere. We were keeping an eye out for any rotations in the clouds. This was all heading CP's way.

Gomez said:On my way home around 7:30, we hit the nastiest looking storm on the Turnpike. This was all heading CP's way.

And it hit Cedar Point hard. I was surprised we didn't see a water spout. It was cool watching the dark clouds roll in, very freaky. War of the Worlds kinda stuff.:)