Ice Storm — Clermont, Ohio

2007-02-13 · Clermont, Ohio

Event narrative

Thousands of trees were downed. Four tenths of an inch of ice accumulation was observed in Williamsburg. Several thousand people were without power. Power was still out 4 days later in some locations. A nine year old girl, Natalie Fossier, was killed by a falling ice covered branch while walking her dog. The accident occurred at approximately 2:20 pm.

Wider weather episode

Low pressure tracked through the Ohio Valley, bringing a variety of winter weather conditions to the region. In west central Ohio, a blizzard dumped around a foot of snow and the resulting winds produced 3 to 4 feet drifts. In the I-71 corridor from Cincinnati to Columbus...a swath of significant icing brought down countless trees and power lines. Duke Energy had peak outages at 125,000 with over 330,000 customers losing power at some point in time and dubbed this the worst wintertime outage locally in 18 years for Hamilton and Clermont counties.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 18261. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.