Power Outage in Evansville, IN

Two more rounds of severe thunderstorms occurred after the morning round. During the mid-afternoon hours, an organized squall line moved southward across southwest Indiana. Isolated wind damage was reported, with gusts up to 70 mph at a few locations. During the early evening, a couple of isolated severe thunderstorms tracked southeast across southwest Indiana. These storms packed wind gusts up to 80 mph along with hail up to the size of quarters. The combination of the three rounds of severe storms resulted in rather widespread power outages across southwest Indiana. The storms occurred ahead of a southeastward moving cold front that extended from northern Illinois through central Missouri. A low amplitude 500 mb shortwave overspread parts of central Illinois and Indiana during the evening, accompanied by 60 to 70 knots of mid-level wind flow. The strong wind shear supported organized storm structures, including lines and elevated supercells. Even though earlier rounds of storms stabilized the atmosphere, a strengthening low-level jet favored regeneration of convection along and atop the outflow-cooled air.

June 29, 2023

Thunderstorm Wind. A wind gust to 62 mph was measured at the Evansville airport by the automated weather observation system. Several trees and power lines were blown down from the north side of Evansville to just north of the airport.

April 05, 2023

A strong storm system led to significant impacts. Heavy rainfall amounts of 3 to 4.5 inches produced isolated flash flooding of roads. Very strong wind gusts occurred, ranging between 50 and 70 mph. These were associated with both thunderstorms and gradient winds afterwards. The line of storms moved through during the early afternoon, and then very strong gradient winds continued for hours afterwards through the afternoon. The magnitude and duration of this wind produced significant damage to trees, power lines, and outbuildings. Soggy ground due to the excessive rainfall likely contributed to some trees being more susceptible to being blown over. Numerous power outages occurred. Two tornadoes occurred along the line of thunderstorms across southwest Indiana, both on the west and northwest sides of Evansville. Finally, the lowest barometric pressure of all-time was observed in Evansville (976.0 mb). The center of the low tracked from the bootheel of extreme southeast Missouri northeast right along the Ohio River. Very strong southwest winds occurred on the back side of the low pressure system.

March 03, 2023

A powerful cold front swept through the region, with wind chills dropping to 20 to 30 below zero. These were the coldest wind chills observed in over 25 years across the region. Evansville plummeted to -30, which was the coldest since December 22, 1989. This was also only the 8th time dating back to 1950 that Evansville has recorded a wind chill dropping down to -30 or colder. The most extreme wind chills were from the evening of the 22nd to the morning of the 23rd, but wind chills as late as the morning of December 24th were often below minus 10. Actual air temperatures only reached the single digits above zero on the 23rd, which followed morning lows around 5 below. Peak wind gusts of 35 to 50 mph were observed during this event as well. The peak wind gust at Evansville was 41 mph on the evening of the 22nd. Isolated power outages were reported, some of which were caused by the strong winds. The extreme cold was indirectly responsible for a number of structure fires caused by supplemental heating sources, such as space heaters. There were numerous reports of frozen water pipes that burst and flooded homes and other buildings. An apartment building in Evansville was flooded after a pipe burst. Parts of Princeton in Gibson County were under a boil water advisory due to a water main break. On top of the extreme cold, one to three inches of snow fell. The highest amounts were east of a line from Princeton to Evansville, where around 3 inches fell. Snowfall amounts from Evansville west and north were from 1 to 2 inches. This snow and the accompanying flash freeze heavily impacted travel across the region. Despite relatively light traffic, there were numerous traffic mishaps. A fatal wreck occurred on Interstate 69 on the northeastern outskirts of Evansville. A 64-year-old man was killed, and several others were injured in the two-vehicle accident. One of the vehicles crossed the median and struck another vehicle head-on. Another wreck on Interstate 69 at the Pike/Daviess County line injured one person and prompted the closure of both northbound lanes.

December 22, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Widespread damaging winds from 60 to 70 mph swept across the Evansville metropolitan area from north to south. A few businesses suffered roof damage. Hundreds of trees were snapped, uprooted, or had large branches broken. Some of the trees landed across power lines. Some downed trees blocked roads. Numerous power outages occurred. Up to 28,000 electric customers in and near Evansville were without power in the aftermath of the storm. The first report of a downed tree and power lines was about ten miles north of downtown Evansville, or three miles northeast of Darmstadt. Tree damage became more widespread as the storms moved across the north side of the Evansville metro area and then across downtown Evansville. A peak wind gust of 68 mph was measured by the Evansville airport automated observing system. The duration of wind gusts above 60 mph lasted for at least four minutes at the airport. There was an unofficial measured gust of 62 mph a couple miles south of Darmstadt.

August 01, 2022

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@JameeFrenchNews - March 06, 2023 10:08

Daviess County is offering shelter to those still without power Saturday night. https://t.co/j4cdiqD6YL

@14News - March 04, 2023 19:42

Today, Saturday, March 4, our Evansville South - Washington Avenue​​​​​​​ branch will be CLOSED due to a power outa… https://t.co/Xq3iIMcBFY

@HeritageFederal - March 04, 2023 14:59

Evansville, IN (5:55 AM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage… https://t.co/gnVRtfmcvG

@grid_events - March 04, 2023 12:15

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@GunnarConsolWx - February 27, 2023 18:52