Early morning storms caused power outages in the Kansas City metro area on Wednesday.
Crews are working to restore power to the area after thunderstorms with wind gusts as strong as 50 to 60 mph rolled through the area in the early hours.
Evergy reported a peak of about 41,000 customers without power around 5 a.m. in its service area in Kansas and Missouri. The utility’s hardest-hit areas included Manhattan, Topeka and the Kansas City metro, including St. Joseph.
By 7 a.m., the utility said it had restored power to about half of its customers.
Evergy crews and additional contractors are working to restore the remaining outages, but the utility says it cannot provide estimated restoration times due to the large number of outages in its territory.
The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities, which serves Kansas City, Kansas, reported 13 outages affecting about 155 customers, according to the utility’s outage map. The Independence Board of Public Utilities reported 19 outages affecting more than 1,800 customers.
