Staff and wire reports
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Residents in Crawford County especially and Ohio in general should consider themselves rather fortunate after a strong, late-season storm rolled through the Midwest Sunday. The storm ripped through several states in the Midwest Sunday, spawning tornadoes and tearing through homes and overturning cars along its path. At least six people were killed in Illinois.
None of the authorities in Crawford County are reporting serious damage. A dispatcher from the Crawford County Sheriff’s Office indicated they had “nothing that was real serious.” Bucyrus and Galion police departments had no reports.
The only reports of damage taken by the Wyandot County Sheriff’s Office involved minor damage to a car when the driver hit a tree that had blown down across the road in Pitt Township and a pole that blew over on a barn off of St. Rt. 199.
Others parts of Ohio were not as fortunate. Three major utility companies are reporting that nearly 71,000 customers were without power as a result of storm damage. More than 30,000 were still without power as of Monday morning. The Sunday evening storm brought strong winds that blew down trees and power lines and damaged some structures, including the rectory at a church in northwest Ohio and a barn in central Ohio. Some minor injuries were reported.
However, much of the line of severe thunderstorms that spawned extremely high winds and reports of tornadoes in Illinois and Indiana seemed to have lost much of their wallop as they reached Ohio. A statewide tornado watch for the Buckeye State was cancelled and there were no reports of tornadoes in Ohio.