CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – Thousands of FirstEnergy customers are without power in Northeast Ohio due to severe storms that hit the area starting Wednesday and continuing in to the early morning hours on Friday.
As of 1:45 a.m. on Friday, 269,471 Ohio FirstEnergy customers are without power.
That’s a jump from 223,214 at 1:18 a.m., and 177,000 at 1 p.m.
Here are the Northeast Ohio counties with the most power outages according to FirstEnergy’s outage map as of 1:45 a.m.:
- Ashland: 36
- Ashtabula: 1,083
- Cuyahoga: 65,522
- Erie: 5,991
- Geauga: 24,201
- Huron: 275
- Lake: 36,172
- Lorain: 15,165
- Medina: 3,381
- Portage: 29,223
- Ottawa: 2082
- Stark: 7,594
- Summit: 29,536
- Trumbull: 12,227
There were tornado warnings issued by the National Weather Service for 14 counties in Northeast Ohio, which all expired by 12:45 a.m. on Friday.
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