Storms knock out power to thousands in Southeast Texas

SOUTHEAST TEXAS — Thunderstorms rumbling across Southeast Texas have left thousands in the dark Friday afternoon.

The Entergy outage map shows about 2,300 customers without power as of 3:30 p.m.

That includes more than 2,000 in Jefferson County, about 100 in Orange County, and a handful in other areas.

The Jasper-Newton Electric Cooperative is reporting about 40 outages as of 3:30.