Power restored in Mid-Missouri counties after severe storms
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Power has been restored after severe storms rolled through parts of Mid-Missouri Wednesday night.
As of 7 a.m. Thursday, power has been fully restored in Camden and Cole Counties.
Wednesday night, 1,500 Ameren customers were without power in Cole County.
The threat of severe storms in Mid-Missouri prompted the ABC 17 Stormtrack Weather Team to issue a Weather Alert Day. A tornado watch was in effect for most of Mid-Missouri until midnight.
Ameren's outage map showed that 1,489 customers in Cole County were without power beginning around 8:35 p.m. Most of those customers were in an area north of Highway 50, just west of Scott Station Road. That outage -- which affect 1,473 customers -- was expected to be restored by 10:15 p.m.
An Ameren spokesman wrote in an email that the outages were weather-related. Nearly half of the customers without power had it restored by 10:10 p.m.
The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives’ outage map is showing that 1,507 Laclede Electric Co-op customers are without power in Camden County, while another 259 customers in Pulaski County for the same co-op had no power. There were also 174 customers without power in Laclede County with no power.
There were an additional 29 Co-Mo Electric Co-op customers without power in Camden County. Additionally in Dallas County there were 232 Laclede and 63 Southwest Co-op customers who were without power.
Lacelede Electric Cooperative wrote on its social media at 7:01 p.m. that crews are on their way to fix the outage. Outage maps indicated power was being restored after 10 p.m.
No storm damage was reported in Camden County as of 7:42 p.m., according to Chris McNail of the Camden County Office of Emergency Management.
Significant storm damage was also reported in the western part of the state on Wednesday evening. Mark Harden, of the Henry County Office of Emergency Management, told ABC 17 News that Clinton, Missouri, had seen storm damage and downed power lines, though not too many outages have been reported as of it.
Henry County Sheriff Aaron Brown told ABC 17 News that a tornado appeared to have touched down in Clinton near Calvird Drive between 2nd Street and Highway 13. No injuries have been reported but power lines and trees in the area are down. A large amount of debris from homes and a lumber business were reported, Brown said.
Clinton School District spokeswoman Angie Lawson told ABC 17 News in an email that some buildings in the district had roof damage. That school district will have an AMI day on Thursday.
Check back for updates.
