UPDATE, 5:30 p.m. | Evergy says that as of 4:30 p.m., 90% of customer had power restored.
In total, more than 106,000 customers lost their power in the overnight storms.
Crews continued restoration efforts for about 13,000 customers as of Monday afternoon.
Customers in areas hit the hardest by the storms — Prairie Village, Shawnee, Overland Park in Johnson County and Parkville, Weatherby Lake, Gladstone, Riverside in the Northland — could be without power until Wednesday evening, Evergy said.
UPDATE, 2 p.m. | We wanted to pass along an update we just received from De Soto USD 232 officials regarding storm damage around Mill Valley High School.
Crews discovered the natural gas smell reported Monday morning was due to a gas line on the roof that was connected to an HVAC line that was damaged during high winds. Crews are now repairing the damage.
Officials say that while there won't be access to the athletic fields and tennis courts at the high school until further notice, the high school itself has been checked out as safe and school will resume as normal on Tuesday.
Utility crews from Evergy and the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities continued work Monday afternoon to restore power. While more than 16,500 Evergy customers remained without power as of 2 p.m., a sizable chunk were associated with storm damage in south central Kansas.
BPU reported 3,581 customers remained without power as of 2:15 p.m.
UPDATE, 12:10 p.m. | We're getting our first look at the damage at Wyandotte County Lake Park thanks to KSHB 41 reporter Abby Dodge, who recorded a quick update.
UPDATE, 11:45 a.m. | Utility crews across the area continued work late Monday afternoon to restore power to customers who lost power late Sunday night.
Evergy reported more than 10,000 customers remaining without power on the Kansas side, though that figure also includes Wichita and Hutchinson, which were also hit with damaging storms.
Nearly 4,000 customers remained without power on the Missouri side, with most concentrated in the city limits of Kansas City, Missouri.
The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities was still working to restore power to roughly 3,550 customers, concentrated in an area near N. 77th Street and Leavenworth Road as well as closer to the downtown Kansas City, Kansas, area.
No significant outages were reported in the Platte-Clay Electric Cooperative and Independence Power & Light service territories from Sunday's storms.
UPDATE 10:20 a.m | Wyandotte County Lake Park in northwest Wyandotte County is closed until further notice after Sunday night's storms left "extreme storm damage" at the park.
Officials say the storm downed several trees, power lines and caused "significant damage" to some of the docks along the lake.
"Unified Government staff are actively assessing the damage and developing a plan for repairs and restoration," a spokesperson said in a media alert Monday morning.
Storm clean-up information for Kansas City, Kansas, residents is available online.
UPDATE, 9:45 a.m. | Sunday night's storms, while concentrated in damage to the western parts of the Kansas City area, left damage across the area. Here's a list of damage reports as of 9 a.m. Monday morning:
- Sunny Pointe Elementary School, 3920 RD Mize Road, Jackson County: Tree limbs down (2 ½ to 3 inches in diameter)
- Paul Kinder Middle School, 3930 RD Mize Road, Jackson County: Tree limbs down (4-inches in diameter; trunk snapped)
- 64th and Monticello, Shawnee: Downed tree limbs
- W 87th Street and Riley Street, Overland Park: Multiple trees down
- W 87th Street and Lowell Street, Overland Park: Multiple trees down, some property damage
- 6332 Kelly Drive, Parkville: Garage doors blown out of a building on Kelly Drive; Multiple trees and limbs down throughout the city.
- 187th Street and Fairmount Road, Leavenworth: Two large power poles down.
UPDATE, 9 a.m. | Evergy says more than 25,000 customers remain without power Monday morning due to Sunday night's storms.
"Vegetation and line crews are working on power restoration and support teams are assessing damage," Evergy said on its website. "Restoration times will be delayed and estimates are not yet available."
On the Kansas side, the Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City, Kansas, reports more than 7,000 customers remain without power, down from a peak of 11,500 late Sunday night.
EARLIER | Overnight storms that rolled through the metro knocked out power to over 90,000 customers overnight.
About 11:30 p.m., nearly 90,000 Evergy customers were without power.
Once power crews began working, Evergy reported 918 outages impacting 37,047 customers at 5:15 a.m.
BPU reported 92 outages impacting 10,304 customers, and Independence Power and Light reported 7 outages affecting 134 customers.
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