Thousands without power across Mid-Missouri
Ryan Shiner
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Thousands of people around Mid-Missouri are without power early Saturday morning after severe storms entered the area on Friday night.
The threat of high winds and hail damage prompted the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team to issue a Weather Alert Day for Friday. Most of Mid-Missouri was in tornado watch on Friday evening. Gov. Mike Kehoe had preemptively declared a state of emergency on Friday afternoon.
At midnight Friday, 2,884 electricity customers in Morgan County were without power; down from 7,470 reported around 8:30 p.m. The majority of customers were with Ameren, with 476 being with Co-Mo Electric.
Another nearly 4,643 households in Benton County were without power, including 3,570 from Southwest Electric, 990 from Evergy and some from Central Missouri Electric. That was up from 4,500 reported without power around 8:30 p.m. Friday.
Additionally, there’s 2,362 households in Camden County without power, including 1,516 from Southwest Electric customers, 829 Ameren customers and some from Co-Mo Electric.
Macon County had about 752 without power at its peak, but it was down to 176 at 8:13 p.m.
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