More than 8,000 We Energies customers were without power Saturday afternoon after severe thunderstorms rolled across parts of Milwaukee County.
The National Weather Service issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning just after 12:00 p.m. Saturday.
Wind gusts of up to 60 miles per hour were reported.
As of 2:30 p.m., about 8,002 customers were out of power. There were multiple major outages reported, including more than 2,500 customers without power just south of Glendale and another 1,500 near West Allis.
You can check the We Energies outage map here: https://www.we-energies.com/outagemapext/
Alliant Energy was reporting less than two-dozen outages as of 1:30 p.m.