Cobalt Technology - Potential Storm Damage to Wichita Falls and Iowa Park Towers – Incident details

All systems operational

Potential Storm Damage to Wichita Falls and Iowa Park Towers

Resolved
Major outage
Started 20 days agoLasted about 2 hours

Affected

Iowa Park ( City Limits)

Major outage from 10:40 PM to 11:30 PM, Operational from 11:30 PM to 12:47 AM

Iowa Park (Rural-South)

Major outage from 10:40 PM to 11:30 PM, Operational from 11:30 PM to 12:47 AM

Wichita Falls (Western Rural - Arena Rd. Tower)

Major outage from 10:40 PM to 11:30 PM, Partial outage from 11:30 PM to 12:47 AM

Updates
  • Resolved
    Resolved

    All equipment is back online. The lightning arrestor did its job and prevented damage to other equipment. Service has been restored.

  • Identified
    Identified

    A lightning arrestor at one of our main towers did its job and absorbed a direct strike. We replaced the unit and have brought almost all customers back online. There are still a few offline that we are working to resolve.

  • Investigating
    Investigating

    We are currently investigating an outage caused by the damaging storm currently impacting the Wichita Falls area.