The consecutive weather events caused some customers to experience repeated outages, and since Wednesday, April 2, crews have restored a total of 75,000 power outages. Throughout the effort, nearly 800 team members, including lineworkers, tree trimmers, damage assessors and support personnel, worked to restore power as quickly and safely as possible.
As of 6:45 p.m. this evening, significant progress has been made in restoring power to those customers impacted by the high winds, thunderstorms, lightning, and reported tornado activity that impacted the Entergy Mississippi service territory yesterday into early Sunday morning. Approximately 2,090 customers are without power, down from the peak of 14,483 that was reached at 4:30 a.m.
Mississippi crews, contractors, tree trimmers and scouts are working diligently to restore power to more than 14,400 customers after thunderstorms, high winds and tornado activity moved through the service area Saturday evening into early Sunday morning. As of 12:00 p.m. Sunday, crews have restored power to 7,400 customers, and approximately 50% remain without power.
As of 8:00 p.m., crews have restored power to more than 88% of customers. Approximately 2,100 customers remain without power, down from approximately 18,300. We’ve identified damages to more than 70 poles, 35 transformers, 75 cross arms, and 12 miles of downed wire.
Restoration is complete and electrical power has been restored to all customers affected by that storm who can safely receive power.
Entergy Mississippi crews, contractors and tree trimmers are working diligently to complete power restoration following the recent severe weather system that caused significant damage in our service area.
Multiple thunderstorms moved through the state March 14 and March 15, causing widespread power outages to more than 15,000 customers, toppling transmission structures, breaking hundreds of power poles and causing major property damage.
Damage assessment is also underway and we anticipate this to be a multi-day restoration event, particularly in the more severely impacted areas. Currently, damage assessment is 82% complete and has identified damages to 157 poles, 17 transformers, 115 cross arms, and more than 13 miles of downed wire.
Severe thunderstorms with heavy winds and confirmed tornadoes moved through the Entergy Arkansas service territory last night into the early morning hours resulting in a peak of 15,000 customer outages.
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