More than 2,500 Xcel customers without power in Boulder County

More than 2,500 customers are without power, with most of those in south Boulder, after Xcel Energy warned of outages ahead of Thursday’s windstorm.

Power is out for at least 2,568 customers in Boulder County as of about 5 p.m., according to Xcel, amid a windstorm that has already brought with it gusts above 75 mph and road closures. Another 689 customers are without power across south Lyons, according to the Poudre Valley REA outage map. In south Boulder, 1,393 customers have been without power since 11:18 a.m., according to Xcel’s outage map.

There are also 939 customers without power scattered between Boulder and Larimer counties, and 25 without power between Boulder and Jefferson counties as of about 5 p.m., according to Xcel’s outage map. The locations of those outages were not clear.

At the outage’s peak, more than 5,500 customers were without power, according to Xcel and Poudre Valley REA.

The remaining customers appear to be scattered through the foothills, Superior and areas south of Boulder, according to the map.

The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office has received multiple reports of utility lines hanging down or into roads in the county’s foothills, according to sheriff’s office spokesperson Carrie Haverfield.

Westerly winds were expected to persist between 30 and 40 mph for the northern plains west of Interstate 25, with gusts reaching 75 mph. For other parts of the fire danger area, winds were forecast to be between 15 and 25 mph with gusts up to 45 mph, according to the National Weather Service.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research Mesa Lab in Boulder recorded max gusts over 75 mph as of about 12:45 p.m.