{"id":343007,"date":"2026-06-19T15:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343007\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T15:50:31","slug":"thousands-across-north-texas-without-power-amid-juneteenth-storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/343007\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands across North Texas without power amid Juneteenth storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 40,000 Oncor customers are without power across Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant\u00a0and Wise counties, according to the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/stormcenter.oncor.com\/?c=External%20Visibility&amp;o=option-9ea8acc1-8aa2-48dc-a3fb-eaa4f88727ca\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">outage map<\/a>. The company is reporting over 943 power outages across the region.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dallas County has the highest number of affected customers, with nearly 30,000 reporting power issues as of 8:30 a.m. Denton County is also having significant outages, with nearly 10,000 people impacted, according to\u00a0Oncor&#8217;s outage map.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oncor spokesperson Roxana Rubio said the company is actively working to assess the damage, but does not yet have an estimate for when the issues will be fixed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our damage evaluation process is always the first step. Damage evaluators are already out to all these locations,&#8221; Rubio said. &#8220;That\u2019s a critical first step because they will evaluate the impact and what resources are needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rubio said customers can text\u00a0REG to 66267 to get up-to-date alerts about when their specific area could see their power restored. She added that customers should call 911 to report downed power lines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this morning, the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning, instructing residents to stay off the roads. The warning is expected to stay in place until 10:45 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 40,000 Oncor customers are without power across Collin, Dallas, Denton, Tarrant\u00a0and Wise counties, according to the company&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,88032,92897,89512,88338,89138,100536,89217,109417],"class_list":["post-343007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas-fortworth","tag-tp-denton-county","tag-tp-texas","tag-tp-collin-county","tag-tp-dallas-county","tag-tp-hail","tag-tp-tarrant-county","tag-tp-thunderstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343007","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=343007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}