Hundreds of people in Granville County and other parts of central North Carolina lost power after strong storms moved through the area Monday night.
According to Duke Energy, close to 1,000 customers were without power in the Granville County area. The outage map showed the majority of those outages were along Highway 96 northwest of Oxford.
More than 100 outages were reported near the towns of Stem and Butner. Sporadic outages were reported elsewhere in the Triangle, including a few dozen in Chapel Hill and Durham.
The WRAL Breaking News Tracker found several spots where trees were knocked down on top of power lines and roads in Oxford early Tuesday morning.
As of 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, Duke Energy was still assessing damage and did not have a timeframe for when power would be restored. By 6:30 a.m., the number of outages fell to roughly 400 across the viewing area.
Powerful storms on Monday evening did significant damage to our west in the Piedmont Triad. Duke Energy reported tens of thousands of outages in the Winston-Salem and Greensboro areas. As of Tuesday morning, more than 30,000 customers were without power.
Winston-Salem NBC affilate WXII reported trees down on homes and more than 50,000 outages in the Piedmont Triad after the storms passed Monday night.