Severe weather with reports of multiple tornadoes in Northwest Arkansas early this morning has caused damage and additional outages throughout the state.
Crews are working around the clock to safely restore power after multiple rounds of severe weather caused outages. We’ve restored a total of 57,000 customers since the event(s), started about 3 p.m. on Friday. Currently, 4,579 customers remain without power.
As of 7 p.m. Saturday, there are approximately 2,850 customers without power, and crews have restored power to more than 41,000 customers.
As of 10 a.m. Saturday, there are approximately 6,485 customers without power, and crews have restored power to more than 38,000 customers.
A workforce of more than 1,000 damage assessors, vegetation crews, line workers, and support personnel are diligently working to restore power as quickly and safely as possible.
Entergy Arkansas has restored approximately 30,000 customer outages resulting from multiple storm fronts that moved through the state in the early morning hours on May 8 and May 9. Currently there are approximately 1,800 remaining customer outages.
Entergy Arkansas continues to make significant progress in restoring power to more than 21,000 customers impacted by last night's severe weather in the Hot Springs and Little Rock areas. Crews also stand ready to respond to any issues that may arise from severe weather moving through the state this evening.
Power outages remain throughout the state after a confirmed tornado touched down in Hot Springs and storms caused lightning and high winds in Central Arkansas.
In all, Entergy Mississippi restored service to over 89,606 customers following the severe weather event.
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