Thousands without power around Mid-Missouri

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Thousands are now without power around Mid-Missouri

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.

The Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives’ outage map showed that 752 electricity customers in Macon County – which saw the first wave of storms on Friday afternoon – were without power. All were of the Macon Electric Cooperative.

There are 2,379 households without power in Benton County, which was in a tornado warning until 8 p.m. Of that total, 1,392 were Co-Mo Electric customers, while 931 were Southwest Electric, 55 were Central Missouri Electric and another was Sac Osage Electric.

There are also 1,409 Co-Mo Electric customers in Morgan County without power.

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