A severe storm hammered the Golden Triangle Thursday and early Friday, dropping trees and power lines across north Mississippi.
In Columbus, there were several reports of damaged homes and downed utility poles.
Columbus Light and Water had a total of 480 customers without power for about an hour at the height of the storm, said CL&W General Manager Todd Gale.
“We had a substation out, but it wasn”t for long,” Gale said. The Columbus Brickyard substation was shut down while a commercial customer repaired a damaged breaker.
The utility is assessing the damage today, Gale said. By 9 a.m., crews had reported four fallen utility poles, which will cost up to $1,000 each to repair or replace.
Crews with 4-County Electric Power Association also worked through the night on outages caused mostly by trees and branches blown down by the heavy wind and lightning strikes, according to 4-County spokesman Jon Turner.
A total of 1,873 4-County customers lost power at the storm”s peak: 729 in Clay County, 360 in Lowndes County and 278 in Oktibbeha County, Turner said in an e-mail this morning.
At 8 a.m., he added, there were still “scattered minor outages across the territory with about 30 people without power.”
The severe weather hit other parts of the state, mostly in the Mississippi Delta and north of the Interstate 20 corridor, said Joanne Culin, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Jackson. Scattered power outages and various damage was reported.
There have been no confirmed tornados in Mississippi, but Culin said the weather service would send a survey team Friday to determine if straight line winds or a tornado destroyed five homes and damaged a church just across the Mississippi River in West Carroll Parish, La. There were no immediate reports of injuries. The same cell likely hit Mississippi.
Forecasters predicted better weather for Friday and Saturday, but are concerned about another strong storm system that could hit Mississippi on Sunday.
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