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.

Entergy Arkansas crews made significant restoration progress overnight as lineworkers assessed damage and immediately got to work restoring 78 percent of customers in the first 12 hours.

Because our customers live in areas prone to some of the most severe weather in the country, we prepare for the worst of what Mother Nature might bring.

Entergy’s team deployed a new Entergy-owned helicopter for its inaugural patrol flights to help restore power to thousands of customers in the wake of severe storms that swept through the Gulf Coast region on March 15 and the more recent spring storms in Arkansas earlier this month.

Entergy Arkansas appreciates your patience as we have completed our restoration efforts resulting from multiple rounds of thunderstorms starting on April 2.