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.
High winds, lightning and heavy rain moved through the state on the evening of May 24, into early morning of May 25, resulting in a peak of 24,000 customer outages.
Entergy’s Louisiana storm team has restored power to more than 90,000 customers statewide after 80-plus mph winds and a tornado impacted the southern region late Thursday night.
All customers who can safely receive power are expected to be restored by the end of the day.
More than 85% of customers restored after severe thunderstorms caused widespread outages.
Entergy crews and contractors have made significant progress restoring power to customers in Louisiana after a second wave of severe weather impacted the state overnight Thursday and into this morning.
More than 66% of customers restored overnight after severe thunderstorms caused widespread outages.