The Twin Lakes Area saw strong storms Wednesday night leading to downed trees and power lines, damage to a vehicle, numerous power outages, flooded roads and record rainfall.
In Mountain Home, Mayor Hillrey Adams said crews went to work at an area of College and First streets due to several trees being down. In addition, Cardinal Drive had to be closed just north of Ninth Street due to flooding over the low water bridge.
There was also a report of wind damage to a structure nearly a mile north-northwest of Mountain Home. Shingles were blown off the building, and large tree limbs were broken nearby
Several reports went to the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office. A tree fell on a vehicle as it was traveling on Missouri Route EE near Bakersfield. The driver was able to avoid injury. Several other trees were down in the area.
Trees went down on two residences in the Pontiac area. One was on Missouri Route W, where several other trees and power lines went down across the highway from Pontiac to Missouri Highway 5. Multiple trees went down on another house on Boat Road.
More trees went down in the Mammoth area. Several landed on Missouri Route T between Highway 5 and Mammoth Church at County Road 527, and more trees and power lines were down on the east section of Route T.
The majority of the reports to the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office came from the Theodosia area. A tree went down on across Missouri Highway 95 nearly a mile north of County Road 904, power lines were down on Cloverdale Circle, and more trees and lines were down on Foxglove Street, County Road 608 and Hummingbird Lane. Additional power lines were down in the back yard of a residence on Westwood Drive, where individuals are on oxygen. A transformer was blown, and trees were down on County Road 603. There were also reports of a sizzling noise from power lines in front of the Theodosia post office on U.S. Highway 160. More trees were across Highway 160 near Isabella Ready Mix, and another tree went down across County Road 602.
The Ozark County Sheriff’s Office received another report it was trying to verify at the last update. According to a Facebook post, a mobile home reportedly flipped south of Isabella on County Road 619 off Missouri Route HH.
Several residences remain without power. As of 6:30 Thursday morning, North Arkansas Electric Cooperative reported outages to 121 members in Baxter County, 11 in Marion County, and 17 in Fulton County. Entergy Arkansas had power out to 31 customers in Baxter County, 591 in Marion County, seven in Fulton County, 15 in Izard County, one in Searcy County, 134 in Stone County and seven in Boone County.
Ozark County had the most outages with 1,723 being reported by White River Valley Electric Cooperative, and one of the locations includes a signal tower in Gainesville, knocking 99.7 The Boot off the air. The cooperative also reported one outage in Baxter County, 53 in Marion County, 80 in Taney County and 17 in Douglas County.
The rainfall received during the storms led to a previous daily record being shattered. At KTLO, Classic Hits and The Boot, the official reporting station for the National Weather Service in Mountain Home, a total of 4 1/2 inches of precipitation has been recorded since 7 Wednesday morning. That rainfall will offically be recorded for Aug. 10, and its previous record was 1.1 inches in 1940. It’s also the wettest one-day period in all of August since records have been kept.
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