200 customers still without power, DP&L says

DAYTON — Power is expected to be restored to approximately 200 Dayton Power & Light customers by late Wednesday morning, according to DP&L officials.

DP&L crews worked overnight after severe thunderstorms rumbled through the Miami Valley and left approximately 16,000 customers without power at one point, according to Kevin Hall, DP&L’s director of operations. The outages began between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., Tuesday, June 15.

As of 9:38 a.m. Wednesday, most of the remaining outages were in Montgomery County, in the cities of Dayton, Kettering, Oakwood, Centerville and Bellbrook, according to Emily Gray, DP&L spokesperson. There were also 10 outages in Greene County.

“The majority of them are from the outages that occurred last night,” Hall said.

Meantime, the sun will likely dry out some of the water. It’s expected to be partly sunny Wednesday with a high temperature of 84 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. The overnight low temperature is expected to be around 62 degrees.

The high temperature is expected to rise back up to 85 degrees on Thursday. It is expected to be mostly sunny with a low temperature of 63 degrees.

Winds reached more than 60 mph in some areas of the Miami Valley on Tuesday night as a second line of strong storms moved through the area in as many days.

Damage reports from the National Weather Service in Wilmington included downed trees from Enon to Miamisburg. A roof was torn off a garden structure in Beavercreek and Dayton police reported trees down on phone lines, which sent the lines onto a parked car on Amberwood Drive.

The Sheryl Crow concert at the Fraze Pavilion in Kettering, which was sold out, was cut short by the weather as patrons were asked to clear the venue after about an hour into her set. A spokesperson for the venue said lightning had been spotted.

Weather service Meteorologist Andrew Snyder said winds were measured at 61 mph in Fort McKinley and at more than 50 mph at Dayton International Airport and in Centerville.