Storms cause thousands of outages in Dallas-Fort Worth

 

Oncor said over 4,000 customers were affected by outages around 1 p.m. Tuesday.

DALLAS — As storms moved through North Texas on Christmas Eve, they knocked out power for thousands of Oncort customers. 

By around 1 p.m., over 4,000 customers were affected by outages, according to the Oncor outage map.

Collin County reported the most outages Tuesday, 1,500 at 1 p.m., according to the map. By 2 p.m., just over 400 customers remained without power. The latest estimated restoration is 2 a.m. Dec 25, Oncor said. 

In Dallas County, 1,5000 customers were without power around 2 p.m., the map states. The latest estimated restoration is currently unknown.

Customers in other counties were also without power Tuesday: 

  • Denton County – 123 customers affected, estimated time of restoration 4 pm today
  • Parker County – 310 customers affected, estimated time of restoration currently unknown
  • Tarrant County – 896 customers affected, estimated time of restoration currently unknown