Thousands without power in central Ohio after tornado warnings
Columbus and Central Ohio Weather
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Tornado warnings went out for multiple central Ohio counties Thursday evening as violent storms left thousands without power Friday morning.
All tornado warnings expired by 10:15 p.m. Thursday, but power outages continued into Friday morning. As of 2 p.m., AEP Ohio’s outage map reported 61 outages affecting nearly 7,700 customers, including almost 5,000 in Delaware County.
NBC4 has live power outage trackers available below from four central Ohio electric companies:
AEP Ohio
For a fullscreen map of AEP outages, click here. Users can find their neighborhood or using a dropdown menu on the left side of the screen, view the map by county or zip code.
If a customer checks their location and sees an outage, they can click on the outage icon and a bar on the right-hand side of the screen will appear. This shows how many customers are affected by the outage, when the outage was reported, and an estimated time that power will be restored.
Customers can report an outage on the left panel of the map.
FirstEnergy/Ohio Edison
FirstEnergy/Ohio Edison customers in rural parts of north-central Ohio can click here for a fullscreen map. This map allows users to search by county. However, it does not present the information in map form. Instead, it opens an alphabetized list of counties it serves, and the number of customers affected by outages.
Customers can report an outage by clicking on the button in the map’s top right corner.
Union Rural Electric Cooperative
Union Rural Electric Cooperative, which predominantly serves electricity to the Marysville area, breaks down its service areas by ZIP code, rather than county.
URE allows customers to report outages either by calling 937-642-1826 or online.
Southern Central Power Company
Ohio Southern Central power customers can find their outage map here.
Serving mostly the south-central part of Ohio, the map also allows users to search by location or break down the outages by county by clicking the “County” button on the right side of the key on the left-hand side of the map.
The company has instructions on how customers can report a power outage on its website.
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