WEEKEND WEATHER

4/21/25

Severe weather that moved through the area Saturday morning left a path of damage through Clay County.  Thunderstorms with strong winds caused structural damage.

Clay Electric Coop reported numerous power outages in northern Clay County shortly after 9 am Saturday due to downed power lines.  By late Saturday afternoon power was restored to most residents.  Tri-County Electric reported over 800 customers off after the storm, mostly in the Kinmundy area.  Most were restored by seven Saturday night.

Steve Lewis with Clay County ESDA reports that they received several reports of structure damage, damaged power poles, and trees down, mostly in the northeastern part of the County and around Louisville.  ESDA is asking for pictures of damage to be posted to their Facebook page, late Sunday night there were over 145 comments with pictures.

Here at the US Weather Bureau station at WNOI we recorded .83 of rain on Friday, .81 on Saturday, and .66 on Sunday, for a weekend total of 2.3 inches of rain,

Just in time for the weekend weather, the NOAA Weather Radio station in Newton was back on the air.  But the station was damaged in the storms and is off the air once again.  The station has been on and off the air since mid March.