Outages: Tornado, thunderstorms leave thousands in dark Monday afternoon

Electricity has been restored to most power customers after severe thunderstorms moved through the area Monday afternoon.

The vast majority of the outages as of 4:21 p.m. were in Montgomery County, with large outages reported in the area of northern Dayton, Vandalia and Centerville. By about 5 p.m., large outages were also reported near Springfield.

At its peak, more than 5,800 power customers were without electricity in the greater Dayton area, and by 12:36 a.m. on Tuesday that had been reduced to just over 180.

As of 12:36 a.m., the number of customers without power, according to the AES, Duke and Ohio Edison outage maps, is:

Montgomery: 127

Clark: 27

Preble: 14

Greene: 6

Darke: 4

Miami: 2

Butler: 1

Champaign: 1

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Daniel Susco

Daniel Susco is a Dayton-area native and staff writer covering breaking news throughout the greater Dayton area. He holds a journalism degree from Ohio University and began writing for the Dayton Daily News, Hamilton Journal-News, Springfield News-Sun, and Dayton.com in 2019.