Power Outage in Oceola, OH

Winter Storm. An Arctic cold front swept through the area shortly before midnight December 23rd. Low pressure along this front tracked over Lake Erie early in the morning on December 23rd and rapidly intensified through the day while slowly lifting northeast across Ontario. With the frontal passage rain changed to snow with temperatures dropping from the upper 30s and lower 40s to sub-zero in about 8 hours. A period of light to moderate snow occurred behind the front across the county through the morning hours of December 23rd before tapering to flurries. The period of snow and rapidly falling temperatures led to a flash freeze and icy conditions on area roadways. While the falling snow became lighter through the daytime hours of December 23rd, winds began increasing during the pre-dawn hours and gusted over 35 MPH through the day. At nearby airports, a peak gust of 45 MPH was observed three times in Mansfield between 7:22 AM and 1:35 PM December 23rd. Marion County Airport measured a 40 MPH gust at 2:52 AM before failing, with a 55 MPH gust measured at 4:33 PM in Findlay. Sporadic tree damage and power outages resulted. Wind gusts very gradually subsided into December 24th, though gusts didn���t drop below 25 MPH until that evening. This led to a prolonged period of widespread blowing and drifting snow beginning early in the morning December 23rd and continuing through the afternoon and evening, with some patchy blowing and drifting snow continuing all the way through Christmas Eve. The greatest impact from this storm was to travel due to the flash freeze and extensive blowing and drifting snow, to go along with low visibility. Several minor accidents, slide-offs and disabled vehicles were reported throughout the county on December 23rd and 24th. An indirect fatality resulted when a 34 year old male got into an accident involving a snow plow while driving on December 23rd. The Crawford County Sheriff declared a Level 3 snow emergency the afternoon of December 23rd which closed all roads in the county to non-emergency travel. This was not lifted until the next morning. Wind chills plunged below 0 by 5 AM December 23rd and did not rise above 0 until late in the evening on December 25th. At nearby Mansfield Airport, a minimum wind chill of -35F was recorded at 11:52 AM December 23rd. A trained spotter measured 3.0��� of snow near Tiro with this storm.

December 23, 2022

High Wind. OH-181 at Middletown Road closed due to downed power lines. This damage occurred southeast of Crestline.

March 26, 2021

High Wind. High wind gusts of at least 60 mph downed trees, large limbs and power lines throughout the county. Scattered power outages were reported. Two trees fell onto homes in Bucyrus.

December 30, 2019

Thunderstorm Wind. Power lines and power poles were blown down on State Route 19.

June 05, 2019

High Wind. Trees and power lines were downed across the area. A large tree fell onto a garage on the west side of Galion. Scattered power outages were reported in the county.

February 24, 2019

Power outages were reported in downtown Akron as well as cars stuck on Akron city streets. Up to 6 inches of snow i… https://t.co/Kyq2mCDfBB

@BucyrusTF - January 23, 2022 16:08

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@BucyrusTF - September 17, 2020 14:30

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@CrawfordEMAOhio - February 23, 2019 15:52

@Melanie3225 @Mackenzie_2004 power outage again???

@rmcguire_ - February 22, 2019 15:51