Power Outage in Ontario, OH

Thunderstorm Wind. Trees and power poles downed, roof blown off township hall, half of roof blown off separate building, and damage to porches of homes in Madison Township (i.e. about three-miles ENE of Mansfield).

April 01, 2023

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 moderate to heavy snow with rates briefly up to 1��� per hour occurred behind the frontal passage into the morning of December 23rd before becoming much lighter by midday. 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 occasionally gusted over 40 MPH through the day. At Mansfield Lahm Regional airport a peak gust of 45 MPH was measured 3 times between 7:22 AM and 1:33 PM December 23rd. Sporadic tree damage and power outages resulted. Wind gusts very gradually subsided into December 24th, though gusts didn���t drop below 30 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. Numerous minor accidents, slide-offs and disabled vehicles were reported throughout the area on December 23rd and 24th, with several of these accidents resulting in at least minor injury. Local news media reported that the number of disabled vehicles put a strain on emergency services on December 23rd. The Richland County Sheriff declared a Level 2 Snow Emergency the morning of December 23rd which was not lifted until the next day. This strongly discourages all non-essential travel in the county.. Wind chills plunged below 0 by 5 AM December 23rd and did not rise above 0 until the morning of December 26th. A minimum wind chill of -36F was reported at Mansfield Airport at 11:52 AM December 23rd. A number of burst pipes were reported across northern and central Ohio due to this cold, with temperatures remaining in the single digits until Christmas morning. A trained spotter in Shelby measured 6.0��� of snow from this storm, with 2.9��� measured at Mansfield Lahm Airport. Other select reports include a CoCoRaHS observer measuring 4.0��� of snow near Charles Mill Lake east of Mansfield, with another CoCoRaHS observer measuring 3.5��� of snow near Lexington. A trained spotter measured 3��� of snow just west of downtown Mansfield.

December 23, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Power pole fell onto a delivery truck about two-miles southwest of Mansfield. Farther downstream (i.e. about two-miles SSW of Mansfield), a large tree fell onto a house and punctured its roof.

June 13, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Several power poles downed about two-miles east of Shelby.

June 01, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Power poles and wires down one mile SSE of Mansfield.

May 14, 2020

Due to an unexpected power outage, our Mansfield Family Health campus is closed today. https://t.co/3PPzoXmmOm

@3rdStreetHealth - February 28, 2023 14:52

Due to a power outage, Richland Public Health will open at 10:00am today, February 28th.

@RichlandHealth1 - February 28, 2023 13:15

Mansfield, OH (2:52 AM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage… https://t.co/xj0h7w4OHZ

@grid_events - February 28, 2023 08:00

Mansfield, OH (9:30 AM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage… https://t.co/GYtr6f37Gv

@grid_events - February 11, 2023 14:45

Mansfield, OH (5:05 PM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage… https://t.co/i4QgcZ0pa3

@grid_events - January 29, 2023 22:15