Severe weather leaves over 7,000 Kansas customers without power — Kctv5 Weather

Severe weather on Monday left more than 7,000 Kansas customers without power, and kctv5 weather showed the outage count rising across multiple counties by 8:02 p.m. The heaviest reported impact was in Riley County, where more than 2,800 customers were without service.

Evergy outage map

Evergy’s outage map listed about 196 active outages across Kansas counties at 8:02 p.m. The statewide total reflected scattered service losses rather than a single outage area, with Riley County accounting for the largest reported share.

Monday storm system

The outages followed severe weather that moved through Kansas on Monday. The same weather also brought several tornado warnings and watches, adding to the scope of the disruption reported across the state.

Riley County outages

Riley County stood out as the hardest-hit area in the available numbers, with more than 2,800 customers without power at the time of the update. For customers there, the immediate impact was a larger concentration of outages than in the statewide total alone might suggest.

The latest map gave the clearest snapshot available at 8:02 p.m.: widespread outages, one county with the largest reported loss, and a storm system that had already moved on after leaving thousands without service.