LiveBlog: Serious Flood Threat for Central Ohio

LiveBlog: 11:02am
We're under a Flood Watch all day today, but here we are at 11:02am and I've already received 2.11" of rain at my house. Locations in northern Ohio have flood warnings as they've gotten over 3" already. If we're not even to noon and this is our accumulation for the day...

...then I'm afraid to see how the day ends.

For us here in Central Ohio, morning thunderstorms have not only had huge rainfall rates, but have continued to redevelop and train over the same areas. If this trend continues along and just south of the I-70 corridor, I expect to see flood warnings sooner than later.

UPDATE: 11:17am
Lets also not forget that we're already completely saturated from heavy rains over the past week. Here's the past 7 days of rainfall from the AHPS. Keep in mind, this does not include most of today's rainfall. I'm currently at 5.45" of rain in 7 days and counting:

UPDATE: 11:31am
Here's another fun stat: 13 days in to July and I have already recorded 7.18" of rain at my house. That's not only the most I've gotten in any month this year, but doubles almost every other month also.

UPDATE: 1:00pm
For a short time we had a Flash Flood Warning for areas along and south of I-70 in Franklin, Licking and Fairfield Counties. The NWS reported rainfall of 3"+ in two hours near Pickerington.

I'm at 2.92" for the day, which is as much as I got for the entire month of May and more than February. Just crazy totals.

It's felt like we've been seeing the back edge of this rain for a while, but storms just keep regenerating. At this point it's hard to say how much longer the rain will keep up east of I-71:

UPDATE: 2:03pm
Wow. The last storm just brought my daily total to 4.01" of rain. I don't recall ever measuring this much in a day.

UPDATE: 4:27pm
Here's a timelapse from my weather cam of the storm that put me over the 4" mark for the day, as it causes some brief road flooding near a neighborhood intersection:

Unfortunately even more storms have started to fire off towards the west and head this way. Just about any amount of rain over the next several hours will cause instant roafd flooding for just about anywhere in Central Ohio.