Power Outage in Sparta, 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, Marion County Airport measured a 40 MPH wind gust at 2:52 AM December 23rd before failing. A 41 MPH gust was clocked at Delaware Municipal Airport at 7:15 AM, with a 43 MPH gust measured at Knox County airport at 4:55 AM and 45 MPH gusts recorded in Mansfield three times between 7:22 AM and 1:33 PM. 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. Several minor accidents, slide-offs and disabled vehicles were reported throughout the county on December 23rd and 24th. The Morrow County Sheriff declared a Level 3 snow emergency around Noon on December 23rd, which closed all roads in the county to non-emergency travel. This was not lifted until close to midday on December 24th. When issuing the Level 3 snow emergency, the sheriff noted that blowing snow was leading to near 0 visibility with snow drifting across roadways in parts of the county. The number of disabled vehicles put a strain on emergency services. Wind chills plunged below 0 by 5 AM December 23rd and did not rise above 0 until late in the evening on December 25th. A wind chill of -37F was recorded at 9:40 AM December 23rd on a mesonet station near Galion. A station in Marengo measured a wind chill of -28F at 10:33 AM. 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 CoCoRaHS observer measured 2.5��� of snow near Mount Gilead.

December 23, 2022

High Wind. High winds of at least 60 mph moved through Morrow County on the morning of December 30th. Several trees and power lines were downed throughout the county, resulting in power outages through portions of the county. One tree crashed through a house in Cardington.

December 30, 2019

High Wind. Trees and power lines were downed and scattered power outages were also reported across the area.

February 24, 2019

Thunderstorm Wind. Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines in the Cardington area.

June 13, 2017

Winter Storm. Interstate 71 corridor during the evening hours. A three to five hour period of freezing rain occurred from the Marion area northeast through the Bucyrus, Mansfield and Ashland areas to as far north as Sandusky, Lorain and Elyria. The first report of freezing rain occurred around 8 pm and the last around 3 am on the 18th. During that time more than a quarter inch of freezing rain was reported in nine counties, including Morrow County. A few accidents and some power outages were reported during the event.

December 17, 2016

We may have a Power outage but breakfast is still on- grill ??

@upperroompastor - August 17, 2019 15:02