Power Outage in Ashland, IL

Thunderstorm Wind. Power lines were blown onto railroad tracks.

May 06, 2023

Tornado. A tornado touched down about 4 miles south-southwest of Virginia at 7:47 PM CST. The tornado tracked northeastward, heavily damaging a farmstead on Parlier Road about a half mile west of highway 78. Here, a house had significant damage to its roof and several farm buildings were completely demolished. One horse was killed and another injured. The tornado crossed highway 78 about a half mile north of Prairie Creek. It damaged approximately 15 power poles on Conover Road and overturned several storage tanks nearby. After crossing highway 125 about 2 miles southeast of Virginia, the remainder of the track mainly consisted of damage to trees. It crossed much of the Panther Creek Fish & Wildlife Area before lifting about 2 miles west-northwest of Newmansville at 7:59 pm.

December 10, 2021

Thunderstorm Wind. Twenty power poles were broken along US-67 southwest of Beardstown prompting the closure of the road.

August 23, 2021

Isolated supercell thunderstorms developed along an outflow boundary from previous convection across the Illinois River Valley during the early afternoon of August 23rd. One of the cells produced 50-60mph wind gusts, which broke numerous power poles southwest of Beardstown in Cass County.

August 23, 2021

High Wind. Westerly winds increased to around 40mph with gusts of 50-60mph. A few large tree limbs and power lines were blown down due to the strong winds.

November 27, 2019

Ashland, IL (11:58 PM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage e… https://t.co/jLyeFE7wD7

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