Columbus Ohio Storm Damage September 16 2010

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Central Ohio-Severe storms are moving through Central Ohio Thursday and tornado warnings and severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for many area counties.

Residents around the area reported strong winds, heavy rain and large hail when the storm approached the region at about 5 p.m.

According to the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center’s web site, there were six tornado reports in Ohio Thursday — four in Athens County and two in Meigs County. The listing did not include other tornado reports received from Central Ohio.

As of 10:05 p.m., the following power outages were reported:

Athens County: 7,889
Licking County: 308
Franklin County: 3,681
Delaware County: 1,431
Hocking County: 756
Perry County: 1,324
ATHENS COUNTY

According to Athens County Emergency Communications, an unconfirmed tornado touched down at about 7 p.m. Thursday in The Plains.

Officials said the path of the storm left significant damage to the Pine-Air Village Trailer Park in The Plains. Several trailers were overturned and numerous trees are down.

Evacuation efforts of Pine-Air Village are underway due to a gas line leak.

Athens High School in The Plains was also in the path of the storm. Forty students were sheltered during the storm.

Basil Rutter Field has reported heavy damages due to the storm. Damages reported in Eclipse are currently being assessed. Johnson Road was closed between state Route 682 and Athens High School between 7 p.m. and 8:55 p.m. Road crews were successful in removing the large debris from the road.

In the City of Athens, the Autotech facility on E. State St. was completely leveled by the storm. No injuries were reported at the site.

The City of Nelsonville reported that 15 homes were destroyed by the storm. Three people were transported to medical facilities. Nelsonville Fire Department is performing a house-to-house search along the path of the storm to ensure the well being of the residents.

Road closures in York Township Include the following:
1. Matheny Road
2. State Route 691
3. County Road 4
4. Spice Lick Road
5. Kimberly Road
6. Carbondale Road

Since the start of the storm, seven people have been transported by EMS to O’Bleness Memorial Hospital. Currently, approximately 200 people are in need of shelter and are currently preparing a shelter site.

Officials urged citizens to avoid downed power lines, trees and high water. Officials said road crews would be making efforts to open roadways throughout the night.

According to Doctor’s Hospital in Nelsonville, four people were being treated for injuries from the storm. None of the injuries are life-threatening.

No damage has been reported at Ohio University. The university will be open Friday and classes will be held as scheduled.

In order to assist those in the Athens community affected by the adverse weather, the university has opened a shelter at Weld House on the campus’ South Green. The shelter was opened at 10:30 p.m.

DELAWARE COUNTY

According to Karen Truett with Olentangy Local Schools, Olentangy High School on Lewis Center Road sustained minor roof damage to a small portion of hte fym and auxillary gym roof. Crews were being called to the school Thursday night to repair the damage.

According to Bob Lavender with the Delaware County EMA, damage from the storm included trees that were snapped halfway up the trunks in the area of Pine Haven Drive near Big Walnut Road. He added that some trunks appeared to have been twisted.

Lavendar said that at a home on Woodbrook Court off Lewis Center Road, a tree fell into a house. A woman inside the home was transported to an area hospital. Details on her injuries were not immediately available.

There were reports of trees on fire in the area of 5000 Sunbury Road.

Lavendar said he spoke with the National Weather Service office in Wilmington. He said the NWS is planning to send investigators to the scene Friday.

PICKAWAY COUNTY

Reports from Tarlton indicated severe damage to homes in the area and the Tarlton Fire Department reported clouds with rotation.

LICKING COUNTY

According to a Storm Team 4 weather spotter, quarter-inch size hail moved through Newark during the storms.

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Hurricane Earl

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NAGS HEAD, N.C. – Hurricane Earl steamed toward the Eastern Seaboard on Wednesday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm’s predicted offshore track could put millions of people in the most densely populated part of the country in harm’s way.

Vacationers along North Carolina’s dangerously exposed Outer Banks took advantage of the typical picture-perfect day just before a hurricane arrives to pack their cars and flee inland, cutting short their summer just before Labor Day weekend.

The governors of North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland declared states of emergency, sea turtle nests on one beach were scooped up and moved to safety, and the crew of the Navy’s USS Cole rushed to get home to Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday ahead of the bad weather. The destroyer was supposed to return later this week from a seven-month assignment fighting piracy off Somalia.

Farther up the East Coast, emergency officials urged people to have disaster plans and supplies ready and weighed whether to order evacuations as they watched the latest maps from the NationalHurricane Center — namely, the “cone of uncertainty” showing the broad path the storm could take.

Earl was expected to reach the North Carolina coast late Thursday and wheel to the northeast, staying offshore while making its way up the Eastern Seaboard. But forecasters said it could move in closer, perhaps coming ashore in North Carolina, crossing New York’s Long Island and passing over the Boston metropolitan area and Cape Cod.

That could make the difference between modestly wet and blustery weather on the one hand, and dangerous storm surge, heavy rain and hurricane-force winds on the other.

“Everyone is poised and ready to pull the trigger if Earl turns west, but our hope is that this thing goes out to sea and we’re all golfing this weekend,” said Peter Judge, a spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency.

As of Wednesday afternoon, Earl was a powerful Category 4 hurricane centered more than 680 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., with winds of 135 mph.

The only mandatory evacuations were for 30,000 people ordered to leave Hatteras Island on the Outer Banks. Dare County spokeswoman Dorothy Toolan said there was no official notification of the evacuation order, and many residents didn’t appear worried.

Nancy Scarborough, who manages the Hatteras Cabanas, said locals are ready to help each other and ride out a hurricane, even if they are cut off from the mainland for days.

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