LIVE: Monitoring potential for late-day storms around Omaha metro

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) — Once the morning storms were well behind us, the First Alert 6 weather team turned their attention to tracking other approaching storms that threatened to roll into the Omaha metro Friday afternoon and into the evening.

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Thousands of Omaha Public Power District customers were without power Friday morning as storms moved through the area.

According to OPPD’s power outage map, the outage was affecting an estimated 281 customers as of 11:30 a.m.

More customers lost power shortly before 6 a.m. due to an outage near Saddle Creek Road and Jones Street. OPPD says there were 2,261 customers that didn’t have power at that time.

The second major outage was resolved just before 7:20 a.m. Power restoration was expected by 7:45 a.m.

There were reported traffic lights out at 132nd and Pacific streets. Drivers were advised to use caution in the area.

If you experience a power outage, you are asked to report it to OPPD on its website. OPPD serves an estimated 427,627 customers total.

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