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.
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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.
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


