Hundreds of residents in Door and Kewaunee counties found themselves without power between storms that hit the area Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Heavy rain and strong winds arrived at approximately 6 p.m. Tuesday. Shortly afterward, property owners were greeted by downed trees and other damage.
According to PowerOutage.us, 880 Door County customers and nearly 550 Kewaunee County customers were without power at the peak of the outages. Wisconsin Public Service restored power to many of them within hours.
A second round of storms hit the area at approximately 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, prompting a severe thunderstorm warning that remained in effect until 9:30 a.m. As of 10:10 a.m. on Wednesday, there were more than 2,500 customers in Door County and another 1,300-plus customers in Kewaunee County without power, with restoration times reaching into the late afternoon hours. WPS is reporting approximately 10,800 customers without power, with Suamico accounting for more than 3,300.
The storms will do little to knock out the heat, however. The area will remain under a heat advisory from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, with temperatures expected to climb even higher on Thursday. The threat of storms will not disappear, either, with more than a 70% chance of rain in Friday's forecast and additional chances of rain through Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
