Damage including downed trees, downed power lines, and flooding were a few of the issues reported during severe weather that rolled through the Valley on Easter Sunday.LIVE STORM AFTERMATH: Dekalb County EMA Director Anthony Clifton says the flooding here on County Road 51 is ‘historic’. Chief Meteorologist Jason Nicholas has the answers. More details about specific areas will be provided once it is confirmed.Streets and homes reportedly impacted in the East Cleveland area included 6th Street, Lowery Street, Lang Street and Ridgeview Drive, among others.Although details remained sketchy prior to sunrise, Fairbanks pointed out several homes had been destroyed. It looked like a frayed rope. "It sounded like a train went through the house and I had to ask my mom if there were trains nearby," Spencer Rienke, 24, said of the storm that hit his mother's house off of Shallowford Road in Chattanooga, where he is visiting from Indiana. If you are a print subscriber but do not have an account here, click Non-subscribers have limited monthly access to local stories, but have options to subscribe to print, web or electronic Published: 6:24 PM CDT April 12, 2020 Updated: 2:37 PM CDT April 13, 2020 Damage including downed trees, downed power lines, and flooding were a few of the issues reported during severe weather that rolled through the Valley on Easter Sunday. CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The National Weather Service in Cleveland confirmed three tornadoes touched down in northern Ohio on Tuesday night.Tornadoes, spring temps and snow on the way--what's next for NEO? LEWIS STREET N.E. editions by clicking Area residents emerged from their homes to seek help and check on neighbors.“A lot of people were walking around with flashlights,” he said.While the damage was severe, Woodruff took the same tone as Spence that more will be learned after daylight when responders can further assess the damage.As of 6 a.m. Monday, Volunteer Energy Cooperative reported 2,959 customers in Bradley County, as well as 2,182 in Polk County, were still without power.
Please use caution and STAY AWAY from downed lines. An EF-0 tornado is the weakest tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. THE CLEVELAND/BRADLEY COUNTY EMA Command Center was on-scene at the staging center in the Community Hall Church parking lot. "We're getting conflicting stories of wind 120 or 110 miles per hour, we obviously know that we've had a tornado touch down [in Hamilton County], we just don't know how bad. THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST International on Overhead Bridge Road sustained significant damage as a result of the storms that hit Cleveland late on Easter Sunday. THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST International was badly damaged by Sunday night's storms. "It just took down our fence and there's no other damage to our house, but that was definitely a tornado it threw all kinds of debris in our yard and tied a fence post or some metal into like a knot. © 2020 WZDX-TV. In all, more than 8,000 VEC customers in the company’s 13-county service area were left in the dark by the series of heavy storms.Cleveland Utilities reported multiple power outages in its service territory resulting from the storm systems. A STORAGE BUILDING at Sequatchie Concrete Services on 6th Street shows signs of damage to the roof, as debris lined the opposite side of the road. and 8th Street., between Gaut Street and Old Powerline Road. It was the only home in their family without significant damage. near the epicenter of the damage from the apparent tornado that touched down late Sunday night and early Monday morning. "We had to put these people somewhere, it was the middle of the night and pouring rain, and we had to take care of them, especially for those most vulnerable people. By the time the storm gave way to the cloudy Monday morning light, at least 20 people in two Tennessee counties were hospitalized with injuries and more than 150 structures had been damaged or destroyed.While the Wilcox family's problems were contained in that Cleveland cul de sac, the wake of the storms stretched throughout Bradley, Hamilton, Marion and other surrounding counties, leaving many to find similar scenes of destruction outside their front doors.East Ridge, East Brainerd, Collegedale and other areas in Hamilton County were badly damaged by the storm. A large contingent of first responders, law enforcement, medical services and firefighters responded to the call in northeast Cleveland, in the area of 6th Street. AN UPROOTED TREE LIES in a yard along 6th Street N.E. Although the storm resulted in injuries to six individuals, no fatalities were reported. "The weather channel and national weather service will be coming today to confirm if there was actually a tornado touching down and what size it was, which is easier to assess in the daylight," Hamilton County Emergency Management Communications Director Amy Maxwell said just before sunrise. Updated Mar 03, 2020; Posted Mar 03, 2020 Debris is scattered across an intersection this morning in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. A widespread and deadly tornado outbreak affected the Southeastern United States on Easter Sunday and Monday, April 12–13, 2020. "Reinke was one of many people surveying damage to homes and businesses on Shallowford Road and throughout the Hamilton Place area in the early hours of Monday morning after storms shook the area.
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My staff and I stand ready, at every step of the way, to help our community get back on its feet. THE REMAINS of the sign for The Church of Jesus Christ International sits in ruins along Overhead Bridge Road N.E.