Nearly 300,000 homes and businesses in northeast Ohio remained without power on Wednesday morning after severe weather, including potential tornados, slammed the region and downed power lines.
Widespread outages were affecting 334,000 customers as of 10:15 a.m. ET.
The National Weather Service in Cleveland reported mid-Wednesday morning it was sending out teams to survey “extensive damage from yesterday’s storm.”
Forecasters with the NWS were also asking people to report any damage or flooding.
Late Tuesday afternoon, the NWS issued tornado warnings for the area of Masury, Brookfield and Yankee Lake. Earlier in the day, the storm system prompted tornado warnings in locations around Cleveland, including Parma, Euclid and Shaker Heights.
What counties are without power in Ohio?
USA TODAY’s Power Outage Tracker showed the outages clustered in three northeast Ohio counties on Tuesday morning:
- Cuyahoga County, which had more than 203,000 customers without power.
- Lake County, which had more than 51,000 customers without power.
- Lorain County, which had more than 23,000 customers without power.
- Geauga County, which had more than 26,000 customers without power.