Nearly 500 still without power across Mid-Missouri Sunday morning

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Nearly 500 customers around Mid-Missouri are without power Sunday 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 11 a.m. Sunday, 255 electricity customers in Morgan County were without power, all from Co-Mo Electric; down by about 8,000 total reported around 8:30 p.m. Friday.

Another 212 households in Benton County are without power, including 171 from Co-Mo Electric; 41 Southwest Electric. That was down from the 4,500 reported without power around 8:30 p.m. Friday.

The National Weather Service in Springfield confirmed two tornadoes touched down around Warsaw in Benton County Friday night.

Additionally, there’s 13 households in Camden County without power.

Macon County had about 752 without power at its peak, but all were reportedly restored by 10:15 a.m. on Saturday.

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