Nearly 15,000 without power near Lake of the Ozarks

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Thousands of people around Mid-Missouri are without power on Friday night after severe storms entered the area

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 8:30 p.m.  p.m., 7,470 electricity customers in Morgan County were without power, with 5,199 being Co-Mo Electric customers and 2,271 from Ameren.

Another nearly 4,500 households in Benton County were without power, including 1,678 from Co-Mo Electric, 2,578 from Southwest Electric and some from Central Missouri Electric.

Additionally, there’s 2,178 households in Camden County without power, including 464 Co-Mo Electric customers and 1,009 from Southwest 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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