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Over 10,000 Lubbock, West Texas residents without power after tornadoes, severe storms

Mateo Rosiles, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
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Over 10,000 Lubbock, West Texas residents without power after tornadoes, severe storms
Over 10,000 Lubbock, West Texas residents without power after tornadoes, severe storms

Over 10,000 residents in West Texas are without power Thursday night after a severe storm system produced large size hail, high wind gusts and tornadoes.

According to the Lubbock Power and Light outage map , as of 8:47 p.m., 120 active outages had impacted 4,465 customers in Lubbock.

Others are reading: Check here for live updates as storms bring tornado warning in West Texas, watch remains

The maps show residents in southwest, south, and southeast Lubbock are being impacted the heaviest; however, outages are being reported city-wide. Crews are being reported assigned to the outages in Lubbock.

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Xcel Energy also reports eight active outages impacting 2,405 customers in Lubbock and Hockley County.

According to its outage map , 2,072 customers in Ropesville, Wolfforth, Meadow and Lubbock have been impacted, with a crew having been assigned to the outage.

Xcel has also assigned crews to Levelland, Littlefield and Smyer to restore power.

South Plains Electric Cooperative reported that shortly before 9 p.m. on June 5, nearly 5,000 customers in Levelland and nearly 500 customers in Lubbock were without power.

This is a developing situation. Follow Lubbockonline for more information.

This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Power outages impact residents in Lubbock, West Texas after tornadoes, storm

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