Power Outage in Oak Vale, MS

Tropical Storm. Tropical storm force wind gusts resulted in downed trees and power lines across the county. Several roads were blocked by fallen trees.

August 29, 2021

Thunderstorm Wind. A large tree fell onto a power line bringing down the line in addition to two other poles. A large tree limb also fell through the roof of a nearby home.

May 04, 2021

Winter Storm. A mixture of freezing rain and sleet fell across the county. Accumulations of three tenths of an inch of ice occurred across the county with sleet accumulations around half an inch. Ice accumulated on power lines and trees. Many limbs were brought down onto power lines, which resulted in roughly thirty percent of the county to be without power. Roads were icy. A carport also collapsed in the county.

February 15, 2021

Thunderstorm Wind. Trees were blown down along Highway 587. Several trees were also blown down in Monticello, including one on a car and another one on a power line.

June 25, 2020

Thunderstorm Wind. During the late evening, a severe thunderstorm was responsible for an extensive swath of significant damage across several counties in the southern portion of the NWS Jackson service area. The main corridor of focused and higher end wind damage was across southern Copiah to far southern Simpson, as well as all of northern sections of Lawrence, Jefferson Davis and Covington counties before dissipating across northwest Jones County. Based on a NWS damage survey of portions of this swath, along with accounts and assessments from local Emergency Managers, significant wind speeds across this swath ranged between 80 and 100 mph. Within the overall swath, there were generally 2 to 3 focused corridors, roughly running from west northwest to east southeast, where the greatest concentration of damage occurred. General dimensions of the swath can be described as roughly 80 miles long with a width of 6 to 8 miles where the greatest concentration of damage occurred. Damage across this large swath were primarily damaged trees and downed power lines. Tree damage was a combination of uprooted and snapped trees and was quite extensive and best characterized by hundreds of thousands of damaged trees. Downed power lines and broken poles were extensive as well across the swath. Additionally, many structures were damaged with degrees of damage from minor to major. All of this was due to a combination of the wind itself causing damage or by downed trees damaging the structure. In Lawrence County, the strongest hit area included New Hebron along with Crooked Creek, Cliburn Cemetery, N Pleasant Hill and Sutton Roads including Highway 42.

April 22, 2020