Crews have made substantial progress in restoring power after overnight thunderstorms brought heavy rains, hail, lightning strikes, and strong winds into Entergy Mississippi’s service territory. Fallen trees and limbs damaged our facilities and caused outages. Between 9:00 p.m. last night and 6:00 p.m. today, crews had restored power to 15,748 customers. However, an additional line of thunderstorms moved through the service area this afternoon, causing additional outages. As of 7:15 p.m., 16,488 customers are without power.

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.

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.