Severe Weather in Ohio

This exhibit is about the most extreme and unusual weather that Ohioans have seen in the past 200 years. The 25 extreme weather events in this online exhibit were chosen from more than two hundred extreme weather events described in the book Thunder in the Heartland: A Chronicle of Outstanding Weather Events in Ohio, by Dr. Thomas Schmidlin and Jeanne Appelhans Schmidlin.

Dr. Schmidlin is a meteorologist and a professor in the department of Geography at Kent State University. Jeanne Appelhans Schmidlin is a technical writer and editor who holds degrees from Miami University and Syracuse University.