Thousands without power in Mid-Missouri as severe storms remain in area
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Severe storms began coming through Mid-Missouri on Monday evening and warnings have been issued by the National Weather Service.
A tornado warning was issued in Benton and Pettis counties that expired at 8:15 p.m.
Benton County saw 4,644electricity customers without power, which included 2,028 Central Missouri Electric Cooperative customers, 132 for Co-Mo Electric, 826 for Osage Valley Electric, 122 for Sac Osage Electric and 1,536 for Southwest Electric Co-Op, according to the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives outage map.
The map showed 425 Central Missouri Electric customers without power in Pettis County. That county’s emergency management agency said in a social media post that its tornado shelters are open.
Morgan County saw 306 Co-Mo Electric customers without power, as well as 291 Ameren customers without electricity. Cooper County had 242 Ameren customers without power.
Storm damage, including trees being down and a house fire from a lightning strike were reported in parts of Morgan County near Versailles, according to a message from its emergency management.
There are also 522 Ameren customers without electricity in Cole County. Camden County is experience 143 homes without power – 31 Co-Mo Electric Cooperative, 112 Southwest Co-op – while Moniteau County saw 123 Co-Mo Electric customers without power.
In Columbia, an outage began impacting around 120 Water and Light customers at 9:03 p.m. in a neighborhood just south of Green Meadows Road and west of South Providence. A second outage in the same area was reported at 9:07 p.m. that affected 32 homes.
Another 344 customers for Boone Electric experienced outages on Monday night. That number was brought down to 274 within an hour, but came back up to 330 by 10:17 p.m. Outages were reported all around the county, including areas north of Interstate 70, South Range Line Road, West Route K, South Route KK and an area near the airport off of Highway 63. Boone County Joint Communications also reported that a tree was down in the roadway in the 300 block of Hirth Avenue.
Much of the area will be in a tornado watch until around 3 a.m.
There were 573 customers without power in Macon County around 7 p.m., but skyrocketed to 1,032 at 7:35 p.m. according to the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives map. It came back down to 10 homes without power around 8:15 p.m.
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