KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Thousands face power outages Monday morning after thunderstorms blew through Kansas and Missouri Monday.
UPDATE, 12:30 p.m. | As storms cleared the area late Monday, utility providers started to make progress in restoring power.
As of 12:330 p.m., Evergy reported just over 3,000 customers remained without power, with a pocket of outages near Lake Lotawana representing the largest cluster.
The Board of Public Utilities in Kansas City, Kansas and Independence Power and Light had both restored power to nearly all customers who were knocked off-line earlier Monday.
UPDATE, 9:48 A.M. | Evergy outages have risen to over 11,000 customers without power, per the Evergy outage map.
Independence Power & Light reports 4,192 customers impacted by outages, while about 450 BPU customers were impacted by storms.
ORIGINAL STORY | Strong winds knocked out power for over 9,000 Evergy customers Monday morning.
Around 9:15 a.m., 9,625 Evergy customers were without power due to 165 active outages.
Around 3,000 customers in Raytown and 1,768 in Lake Lotawana, located in Jackson County, faced outages.
Shortly before 7 a.m. the Leavenworth County Sheriff's office says possible straight line winds near K-7 and County Road 8 impacted about 10 power poles.
The sheriff's office's emergency management director is headed to the area to survey any damage.
Evergy reported just south of Lansing 47 outages impacted 2,562 customers.
The St. Joseph area initially reported only a few outages impacting about 21 customers
Just after 8 a.m. Evergy is reporting 87 outages throughout our viewing area, knocking power out to 6,065 customers.
