Power Outage in Jackson, MO

An organized line of severe thunderstorms produced widespread wind damage across several counties in southeast Missouri. Numerous trees were blown down during the evening from Wayne County, east-southeast across northern Stoddard and southern Bollinger Counties, through Scott County. Widespread power outages occurred, and several thousand customers remained without power into the morning of the following day. There were at least two measurements of wind gusts between 70 and 75 mph. Ahead of the organized line of severe thunderstorms, an isolated severe thunderstorm produced large hail. Storms initiated over western Missouri late in the afternoon and gradually evolved into a line that moved eastward along a frontal corridor across southern Missouri. Given adequate westerly wind flow through a deep layer, the storms organized into a squall line with considerable damaging wind potential.

May 08, 2023

A strong storm system led to significant impacts. Heavy rainfall amounts of 3 to 4.5 inches produced flash flooding of a few creeks and roads. Small rivers such as the Black, Current, and St. Francis experienced minor flooding. Strong wind gusts occurred, ranging between 40 and 60 mph. These winds were produced by a strong pressure gradient on the back side of a very intense low pressure system. The highest measured wind gust was 58 mph in Mississippi County along the Mississippi River. Other peak wind gusts included 56 mph at the Cape Girardeau airport, 49 mph at the Sikeston airport, and 48 mph at the Poplar Bluff airport. A period of strong northeast winds during the early morning hours was followed by even stronger northwest winds following the passage of the low pressure center in the afternoon. The magnitude and duration of this wind produced scattered damage to trees and power lines. Soggy ground due to the excessive rainfall likely contributed to some trees being more susceptible to being blown over. Scattered power outages occurred, particularly in the Mississippi River counties. Finally, the lowest barometric pressure of all-time was observed in Paducah, Kentucky (977.7 mb) as the center of the low tracked from the bootheel of extreme southeast Missouri northeast right along the Ohio River.

March 03, 2023

Thunderstorm Wind. Several large trees were down in the Cape Girardeau area. About 2,500 customers were without power in the Cape Girardeau area. A trained spotter just north of Delta estimated winds gusted to 60 mph. A few limbs were down in that area.

February 22, 2023

Widespread snowfall blanketed southeast Missouri during the night of the 24th into the early morning hours of the 25th. Heavy snowfall occurred in most areas except the Kentucky border counties of Mississippi and New Madrid. The heaviest snowfall was in the Ozark foothills north and northwest of Poplar Bluff, over 6 inches in some areas. Carter and Bollinger Counties both reported 7 to 9 inches of snow, which was wet and heavy enough to bring down a lot of tree limbs. Power outages were widespread, and several roads were blocked. Snowfall amounts of 4 to 6 inches were common elsewhere to the north and west of Cape Girardeau, including Perryville, Greenville, Poplar Bluff, and Doniphan. Three to four inches fell from the Dexter/Bloomfield area to Benton in Scott County. Snowfall rates were quite heavy for a few hours, averaging an inch per hour. Only an inch or so fell in Mississippi and New Madrid Counties. Roads were snow-covered and slippery during the heavy snow, with numerous vehicles sliding off the roads. Temperatures rose above freezing soon after the snow ended, so treated main roads improved rather quickly later in the morning. Due to the heavy wet nature of the snow combining with wind gusts of 15 to 20 mph, significant power outages occurred across the Ozark foothills of southeast Missouri. There were over 75,000 customers without power across south central and southeast Missouri at its peak on the morning of January 25th. Numerous downed trees also occurred in these areas.

January 24, 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. Paducah, KY dropped down to a -21 wind chill, which was the coldest since February 3, 1996. 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 gust at Cape Girardeau was 44 mph on the evening of the 22nd. Some power outages were reported in Cape Girardeau, where a power line was down and a substation transformer caught fire. 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. In Cape Girardeau, an underground 6-inch water main burst, causing a loss of water pressure to a neighborhood. Another water main break occurred in Jackson. There were reports of frozen water meters in Cape Girardeau. On top of the extreme cold, one to three inches of snow fell. The highest amounts were generally along and south of a line from Van Buren in Carter County through Greenville in Wayne County to Benton in Scott County, where around 3 inches fell. Snowfall amounts elsewhere 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. The Missouri Highway Patrol in southeast Missouri responded to 80 stranded motorists, 33 non-injury crashes, and 4 injury crashes during the winter storm.

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