Power restored to Ameren customers in Moniteau, Cooper counties
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
There were nearly 1,000 Ameren customers without power on Tuesday afternoon.
Information from Ameren’s outages map showed 688 customers were without power in Cooper County, while another 280 had no power from the same outage in Moniteau County.
Ameren’s map indicates that the outage was caused by damage from a tree at 3:57 p.m. just north of Prairie Home. The nearest official National Weather Service station to Cooper County, at Marshall Memorial Municipal Airport, recorded a wind gust of 35 miles per hour at 4:35 p.m.
Ameren stated in a 7:19 p.m. email that power had been restored.
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