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Lucas County is under a tornado warning until 6 p.m. The National Weather Service advises to take shelter immediately.
A storm cell located along a line extending from 20 miles west of Whitehouse in Western Lucas County to 29 miles west of Rawson, Ohio in Hancock County are moving east at 60 miles per hour and could impact communities in the Toledo area, including, Waterville, Holland, Sylvania, Toledo, Bowling Green, Findlay, and Weston.
The tornado warning has been updated to include eastern Lucas County, including Oregon and Harborview along Maumee Bay. The warning for severe storms will expire at 6 p.m.
There is a Tornado Warning for Wood County in effect until 6:04 p.m. The National Weather Service radar has indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado in Wood County. The storm was located near Deshler, or seven miles southwest of Custar, moving northeast at 70 mph.
Communities that could be impacted by this storm include Custar, Bowling Green, North Baltimore, Weston, Perrysburg, Rossford, Northwood, Hoytville, Milton Center, Grand Rapids, Tontogany, Jerry City, Haskins, and Risingson.
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Severe storms moving through northwest Ohio have knocked down power lines, leaving thousands of residents in the dark, including in Lake Township and Perrysburg. Large tree limbs have toppled down in several areas, including in Toledo where some streets are blocked.
Damage to mobile homes is being reported in some areas as well.
A dispatcher for the Putnam County Sheriff's Office couldn't confirm that a tornado had touched down, but said there are people calling in need of help throughout the county.
The National Weather Service said the path of severe thunderstorms capable of producing a tornado are located along a line extending from Payne to Convoy in Putnam County and were moving at 70 miles per hour.
These dangerous storms are predicted to be near Leipsic and Glandorf at 5:05 p.m. and Pandora at 5:10 p.m. The weather service is urging people on these areas to take cover and move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building and avoid being near windows.
Severe weather, including the possibility of strong thunderstorms and tornadoes, is approaching portions of northwest Ohio, with several counties under tornado watches until 8 p.m. today, according to the National Weather Service.
Ohio counties under watches include Allen, Auglaize, Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert, and Williams. In southeast Michigan, counties under a tornado watch Monroe, Lenawee, and Hillsdale counties.
The National Weather Service has issued tornado watches, lasting until midnight, for counties including Lucas, Wood, Erie, Hancock, Hardin, Huron, Ottawa, Seneca, Sandusky, and Wyandot.
Tornado watches indicating a "particularly dangerous situation" have been issued for parts of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Missouri.
Several rapidly-moving, intense tornadoes, severe thunderstorms, large hail events, and damaging winds are expected in these watch areas. A high or moderate risk of severe weather is in effect for most of the Upper Midwest and Ohio Valley.
The weather service also issued a wind advisory, which is in effect from 7 p.m. today until 7 a.m. Monday northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. Strong west winds are predicted to be 20 to 30 miles per hour with gusts reaching 50 mph.
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Western Ohio is in the area in which severe weather is most likely to happen.
Elsewhere, severe storms are also possible from parts of Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee northeastward across much of the Appalachians to the lower Great Lakes and southern New England, according to the National Weather Service.
Numerous fast-moving thunderstorms, capable of producing strong tornadoes along with widespread damaging winds and large hail, will move across portions of the middle Mississippi and Ohio Valley region and the southern Great Lakes region for the remainder of today into this evening. Damaging winds will remain a concern as storms move across the Appalachians and portions of the Northeast tonight, while severe storms will also be possible from now into tonight across parts of the Tennessee and lower Mississippi Valleys.
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