NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thunderstorms have knocked out power to about 4,400 homes and businesses in Louisiana and 3,900 in Mississippi.
However, meteorologists say they didn’t have reports of major damage from Sunday’s storms, although 51 of Louisiana’s 64 parishes and 30 of Mississippi’s 82 counties were under a tornado watch.
Entergy Mississippi reports the largest outages: more than 2,000 in Warren County, where Vicksburg is located, and 960 in neighboring Hinds County, which includes Jackson. Scattered power failures in 21 other counties brought Entergy’s total to about 3,500.
Mississippi Power reports 420 outages across 23 counties.
Entergy Louisiana reports 2,000 outages in 28 parishes, with the largest, 300 to 400 each, in Tensas, Richland and Madison parishes.
Swepco reports nearly 1,400 outages in five northwest parishes and Cleco Corp. about 700 in nine central parishes.