{"id":305878,"date":"2026-05-23T12:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305878\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T12:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T12:27:07","slug":"houston-power-outages-nearly-42k-customers-have-no-power-saturday-morning-after-severe-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/305878\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston power outages: Nearly 42K customers have no power Saturday morning after severe storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 700 lightning strikes reported during thunderstorms <\/p>\n<p>Tracking power outages and thunderstorms (Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Nearly 42,000 customers are without power Saturday morning after a severe round of thunderstorms rolled through Houston, Texas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The storms generated more than 700 lightning strikes and loud thunder in the early morning hours of Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">CenterPoint reports more then 40,000 without power and Entergy reports over 1,000 customers without power. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">KPRC2\u2019s weather team is tracking the storms and throughout Memorial Day weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/weather\/2026\/05\/22\/rounds-of-thunderstorms-for-the-houston-area-through-memorial-weekend\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/weather\/2026\/05\/22\/rounds-of-thunderstorms-for-the-houston-area-through-memorial-weekend\/\">Houston is now under a flood watch through Memorial Day Monday<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The biggest threat is the flash flooding possible after days of heavy rain this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 nALdY copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 700 lightning strikes reported during thunderstorms Tracking power outages and thunderstorms (Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15740,110838,110836,56,58,110837,108775,57,7094,3459,4375],"class_list":["post-305878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-centerpoint-outages","tag-entergy-outages","tag-flash-flooding-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-lightning-storm","tag-houston-memorial-day-weather","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-weather","tag-power-outages","tag-severe-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}