Friday night’s storm activity resulted in multiple reports of damage and power outages in Mountain Home and throughout the Twin Lakes Area, but no injuries have been reported. In Mountain Home, Hiram Shaddox Geriatric Health and Rehabilitation had to be evacuated after the roof collapsed.
Baxter County Judge Mickey Pendergrass says luckily, the residents and staff of Hiram Shaddox were able to avoid injuries after the collapse.
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As of Friday night’s reports, Baxter Regional Medical Center did experience a power outage, but it avoided structural damage and injuries. BRMC Marketing Director Tobias Pugsley says the hospital took in some of the Hiram Shaddox patients after the storms hit.
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Baxter and surrounding counties were placed under a tornado warning approximately 8:30 Friday night. Rotating winds were detected by radar in Gassville resulting in multiple power outages.
Most of the damage reports were from the north side of Mountain Home and in Henderson and Gamaliel. The Willowbrook Senior Complex and Meadow Springs Apartments both had reports of structural damage, and several trees and power lines were down as a result of the storms.
At their peaks, Entergy and North Arkansas Electric Cooperative each reported over 1,100 customers were without power. Earlier Saturday morning, NAEC was still looking to restore power to over 800 customers, but Manager of Member Services Leah Rouse says crews have made significant progress since then.
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Rouse says there is currently no timetable to when power will be restored.
Entergy is reporting 966 area customers without power including 38 in Baxter County, 236 in Marion County and 661 in Izard County.
Mountain Home School District Superintendent Dr. Jake Long says the junior high campus was opened as a shelter for anyone who may have been displaced from the storms.
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Dr. Long says at early assessment, the Mountain Home School District avoided structural damage.
Meteorologist Marty Trexler says the National Weather Service office in North Little Rock is sending a crew to the Mountain Home area to survey the damage. For Saturday night, Trexler says the Twin Lakes Area can expect freezing conditions.
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For more on the forecast, go online to ktlo.com/weather.
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