Tuesday morning power outages reach the Topeka area

EMPORIA, Kan. (WIBW) — Power outages that had been reported early Tuesday in the Emporia area stretched to the Topeka area later in the morning.

As of 10:45 a.m. Tuesday, Evergy was reporting 135 Evergy customers in the Highland Crest neighborhood of southeast Topeka.

That outage was reported at 10:17 a.m.

Evergy said electricity was expected to be back on around noon Tuesday.

Three other outages, each affecting fewer than five customers, were being reported in the Pauline community south of Topeka; and area near S.W. 29th Street and Wanamaker Road in southwest Topeka; and in the Silver Lake community just northwest of Topeka.

Meawhile, 602 Evergy customers were out of power as of 10:53 a.m. Tuesday in communities stretching about 12 miles east of Emporia on the north and south sides of Interstate 35.

Communities affected by the outage included the Lebo community

The cause of the outage wasn’t immediately identified.

Another outage was reported by FreeState Electric Cooperative in Osage County, where 152 outages were reported as of 9:45 a.m. Tuesday.

FreeState also reported one outage in Shawnee County as of 9:49 a.m. Tuesday.

Evergy said the outage was reported at 3:43 a.m. Tuesday and power was expected to be restored by around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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