We thank you for your patience while we restored over 18,500 customers who lost power as a result of the thunderstorms with high winds, heavy rain and lightning that moved through the Entergy Mississippi service territory Sunday night through Tuesday afternoon.

Preparing for stormy weather is what we do at Entergy. As part of our extensive year-round focus on incident preparation, Entergy employees recently participated in an annual tropical storm exercise.

We continue to make progress in restoring power due to severe thunderstorms bringing high winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunderstorm activity that passed through the Entergy Mississippi service territory Sunday night and this afternoon causing customer outages.

High winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunderstorm activity brought down trees and limbs, causing approximately 18,500 storm related outages across the service area. As of 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, power had been restored to 15,022 customers. Past drought conditions also continue to make dead trees outside of the right-of-way a cause of many outages.

Severe thunderstorms bringing high winds, heavy rain, lightning and thunderstorm activity passed through the Entergy Mississippi service territory overnight causing customer outages. As of 6:00 p.m., approximately 6,100 customers are without power after reaching a peak of 8,689 customer outages at 7:30 a.m. this morning.

May is Wildfire Awareness Month and Entergy is highlighting the importance of preparing for the increased risk of wildfires as the hotter, drier weather of the summer approaches.

Approximately 79% of the customers impacted have been restored, down from the peak outage that occurred at 6:15 a.m. this morning of 10,948 outages.

Since the peak outage count of 21,000 customer outages yesterday at 7 p.m., Entergy Arkansas has successfully restored power to 89 percent of customers impacted by the storms.