Severe storms causes power outages to 1000’s in Georgia, USA

An estimated 2,000 Georgia Power customers in Columbus are without electricity after a line of strong-to-severe thunderstorms rolled through the Chattahoochee River Valley Monday evening.

As of 7:15pm ET, 1,888 Georgia Power customers were without power in Muscogee County. Most of those outages were in the East Wynnton neighborhood south of Macon Road and north of Buena Vista Road. Georgia Power was not reporting any outages elsewhere in our area as of 7:15pm ET.

“A tiny area of low pressure has formed along the cold front to our northwest,” WRBL First Alert Meteorologist David Reese said Monday evening. “Showers and storms will form out ahead of and to the south of this area of low pressure as it runs into a very warm and moist air mass and could form at any time over the next 36 hours.

A line of storms did just that starting across portions of Lee and Russell counties in Alabama just before 6pm ET and into portions of western Georgia including Muscogee, Harris and Troup counties. More showers and thunderstorms were expected Tuesday ahead of warmer temperatures for the end of the week.