Power Outage in Ilion, NY

A National Weather Service storm survey team, along with Emergency Management, determined that a macroburst impacted the areas of Russia, Norway and Ohio in central Herkimer County. This macroburst resulted in numerous large hardwood trees uprooted or snapped about a third to halfway up along with power poles snapped with significant power outages. Areas hardest hit were along Grant Road and Fisher Road. There were also several trees downed at Pardeeville Road and Dan Davis Road in Ohio. A large tree went through a small house on Fisher Road. A secondary area of damage was in the Adirondack Campground where an un-anchored trailer flipped and was dragged several feet to its resting place. Numerous hardwood trees were also observed to be uprooted or snapped about a third to halfway up. All debris was pointed in an east-northeast direction.

A National Weather Service storm survey team, along with Emergency Management, determined that a macroburst impacted the areas of Russia, Norway and Ohio in central Herkimer County. This macroburst resulted in numerous large hardwood trees uprooted or snapped about a third to halfway up along with power poles snapped with significant power outages. Areas hardest hit were along Grant Road and Fisher Road. There were also several trees downed at Pardeeville Road and Dan Davis Road in Ohio. A large tree went through a small house on Fisher Road. A secondary area of damage was in the Adirondack Campground where an un-anchored trailer flipped and was dragged several feet to its resting place. Numerous hardwood trees were also observed to be uprooted or snapped about a third to halfway up. All debris was pointed in an east-northeast direction.

A power line pole was ripped out of the ground. The poles and wires were downed across State Route 29.

A power outage was observed.

Power line wires were reported down on North Columbia Road in the town of Columbia due to thunderstorm winds. Power was out on Elizabethtown Road in Ilion as a result of the downed wires.

Wires were reported down and a power pole was snapped at the base and leaning into wires along State Route 169 in Little Falls.

A power pole was damaged due to thunderstorm winds in Wilmurt.

Trees and wires were reported down in Ohio due to strong thunderstorm winds. Also, a power pole was reported broken along State Route 8.

Multiple trees and power lines were reported down in Schuyler Corners due to strong thunderstorm winds.

An emergency manager reported that 2 trees and some power lines were blown down in Norway.

Trees and power lines down across NY Route 8, south of Noblesboro Bridge.

A warm frontal boundary moved through the area during the afternoon hours of Friday, March 20th, 2020. Many thunderstorms developed as the front pushed through the region but most storms remained sub-severe with only two reports of trees and power lines down in Herkimer county.

A cold front brought isolated severe weather to Herkimer county, New York during the late afternoon hours of Friday, August 18th, 2017. These storms knocked down numerous trees and power lines.

A strong cold front swept east across the region during the evening hours of Saturday October 25th. A wave of low pressure developed along this front and lifted north during the evening, creating locally heavy rainfall across portions of eastern New York and western New England.||In addition, the tight pressure gradient between the approaching front, and strong high pressure off the New England coast, created gusty southeast to south winds across the region from Saturday afternoon into the evening, which led to some downed trees, tree limbs and power lines.

On November 28th, a strong low pressure system moved through the region, bringing heavy rains to most of the area. The heaviest rain fell over the Catskills, where over 4 inches of rain was locally estimated by radar, while the region between Southern Washington County and the Sacandaga reservoir received between 2 and 3.5 inches of rainfall. In addition, heavy rains fell over much of the Upper Mohawk Basin. Minor flooding was reported in several towns along the Hudson River and Esopus Creek, but any damage associated with it was confined to temporary roadway closures.High winds also accompanied the heavy rains, and there were widespread power outages across the region, with Niagara Mohawk reporting peak outages of approximately 8,000 customers in the eastern portions of New York State.