Cobalt Technology - Lightning Damage – Incident details

Wichita Falls (Stadium Tower) experiencing major outage

Lightning Damage

Resolved
Major outage
Started over 3 years agoLasted about 14 hours

Affected

Wichita Falls (Western Rural - Arena Rd. Tower)

Major outage from 10:00 AM to 12:21 AM

Updates
  • Resolved
    UTC
    Resolved

    This incident has been resolved. All repairs on the tower are complete. If anyone is still out, please check that everything is plugged into the router properly in your house. If you still have issues, please contact us for troubleshooting on an individual basis.

  • Monitoring
    UTC
    Monitoring

    Repairs are being made and customers are beginning to come back up. We will continue our work until everyone is back up.

  • Update
    UTC
    Update

    The out-of-town tower crew arrived on site a few minutes ago and is about to begin their work. Estimated restoration time is 5 PM.

  • Update
    UTC
    Update

    Tower crews are busy around the state because of the storm. We found a crew that can come out and replace the damaged equipment. Current estimated restoration time: 5 PM Today.

  • Identified
    UTC
    Identified

    Equipment on our tower took a direct lightning strike during the storm last night. We are working with our tower climbing crew to get them out to replace the equipment.

  • Investigating
    UTC
    Investigating

    We are currently investigating this incident. All of our rural Wichita Falls customers are experiencing an outage as a result of the storm. We are working to get everything back online as soon as possible and will provide an update soon.