Power restored after strong winds cause outages for some St. Joseph residents Thursday

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Evergy crews worked throughout the afternoon Thursday to restore power for thousands of residents impacted by outages, likely a result of strong wind gusts impacting the region.

At one point Thursday afternoon, a little more than 2,700 customers in the St. Joseph area were without power according to an outage map from Evergy.

Four outages were initially listed around 1:30 p.m. Thursday, cutting power for approximately 2,767 customers across large areas near Downtown, Frederick Avenue, U.S. 59 Highway and U.S. 36 Highway, among others areas.

By 2 p.m., around 750 customers were without power. The number would eventually fall to less than 25 by 2:30 p.m. and fewer than five by 6 p.m. that evening.

Outages were likely the result of strong wind gusts impacting the area and large parts of the United States. In states like Colorado and Washington, hurricane force wind gusts around 120 mph were reported according to national media outlets.

A wind advisory was in effect until 9 p.m. Thursday for St. Joseph and portions of east central and northeast Kansas and north, central, northwest and west central Missouri, bringing wind gusts up to 50 mph.