As of 6:45 p.m. this evening, significant progress has been made in restoring power to those customers impacted by the high winds, thunderstorms, lightning, and reported tornado activity that impacted the Entergy Mississippi service territory yesterday into early Sunday morning. Approximately 2,090 customers are without power, down from the peak of 14,483 that was reached at 4:30 a.m.

The Entergy Arkansas service area has sustained five rounds of severe weather in recent days, resulting at its peak Saturday in 71,300 customer outages. Currently, 83% of customer outages have been restored. We have activated teams of nearly 1,000 additional personnel to support restoration efforts and continue to shift resources and special equipment to assist with the hardest hit areas.

The Entergy Arkansas service area sustained five rounds of severe weather in recent days, resulting at its peak Saturday in 71,300 customer outages and currently at 40,000. We have activated teams of nearly 1,000 additional personnel to support restoration efforts and continue to shift resources and special equipment to assist with the hardest hit areas.

Mississippi crews, contractors, tree trimmers and scouts are working diligently to restore power to more than 14,400 customers after thunderstorms, high winds and tornado activity moved through the service area Saturday evening into early Sunday morning. As of 12:00 p.m. Sunday, crews have restored power to 7,400 customers, and approximately 50% remain without power.

Entergy Arkansas crews have now responded to five rounds of severe weather since Wednesday evening. Customer outages were down to approximately 4,000 Friday afternoon from a peak of 27,000 outages until storms today caused additional outages which peaked at 71,300.

Entergy Arkansas crews have now responded to four rounds of severe weather since the Wednesday evening and more weather is headed our way through Sunday.

Entergy Arkansas crews have promptly restored power to many more customer interruptions caused by this week’s cycle of severe weather, including two confirmed EF3 tornadoes.