{"id":65536,"date":"2015-07-03T07:23:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T12:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=65536"},"modified":"2015-07-03T07:23:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T12:23:46","slug":"mccoy-june-rainfall-a-record-for-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/07\/03\/mccoy-june-rainfall-a-record-for-county\/","title":{"rendered":"McCoy: June rainfall a record for county"},"content":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/VW EMA information<\/i><\/p>\n

What began as a nice start to spring for area farmers has turned into a complete disaster, with substantial loss of crops across the county, said Van Wert County Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy. Flooding rains throughout the month of June has caused thousands of acres across the county to remain bare, with no chance of planting at this point. And for the crops that are in the ground, many plants have died from the excessive water, while many surviving fields may have little to no crops at all to harvest in the fall.<\/p>\n

McCoy said the area has seen localized floods before, but never in the history of Van Wert County has there been a month-long event that has taken such a heavy toll on the farmers.<\/p>\n

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Flooding, like this seen along Ohio 49 south of Willshire, has been a product of the record rainfall Van Wert County experienced in June.<\/strong> (VW independent file photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the month of June, McCoy measured 15.71 inches of rainfall at his office in Van Wert. This surpasses the previous June record of 10.56 inches set back in 1993. But he went on to say that the area across Van Wert received the least amount of rain in the county. Areas across the southern and northern parts of the county received between 20 and 24 inches for the month.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just unreal, considering our yearly average total runs at around 36 inches and we just received between half to two-thirds of the total in one month,\u201d McCoy noted.<\/p>\n

The EMA director advised that the culprit was long coming in the form of an El Nino weather system. Last year, an \u201cEl Nino Watch\u201d was issued for the Pacific Ocean, with signs an El Nino would develop.\u00a0 But winter came and went with no further development.<\/p>\n

In early spring, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued an \u201cEl Nino Advisory\u201d indicating the weather system was strengthening and the effects would be felt across the country. All indications pointed to a wet spring and summer with temperatures below average.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe watched a \u2018Bermuda High\u2019 set up and its location combined with a persistent upper trough over the west has been drawing an enhanced flow of deep gulf moisture into the southern plains and has been transported up into the Ohio Valley,\u201d McCoy explained.<\/p>\n

Moreover, research of past El Nino years indicate that July will have above normal precipitation and moderate temperatures normally in the 80s.<\/p>\n

Local communities and area residents have been hit hard with flooding issues this past month.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough all creeks and streams have been out of bank at some point in June, it was the St. Marys River that runs through Willshire and Jennings Creek outside of Delphos that really gave us fits,\u201d said McCoy. Around 24,000 sand bags were used in Willshire to protect businesses and homes when the St. Marys crested at 25.1 feet several weeks ago. And many people had homes surrounded by water or coming into basements where there were never water problems before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ground is so saturated that water isn\u2019t getting away and then, when you get a three- to four-inch rain overnight, there is no way to stop the flash flooding that occurs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent\/VW EMA information What began as a nice start to spring for area farmers has turned into a complete disaster, with substantial loss of crops across the county, said Van Wert County Emergency Management Director Rick McCoy. Flooding rains throughout the month of June has caused thousands of acres across the county to remain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 07:26:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}