SPRING MOUNTAINS NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, NV – AUGUST 12: Lightning strikes behind a home in the community of Cold Creek as a line of monsoon storms sweep through the Mount Charleston Wilderness Area about 35 miles northwest of Las Vegas early on August 12, 2018 in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada. Strong winds clocked up to 70 mph knocked down power poles and wires cutting power to more than 55,000 customers in the Las Vegas valley. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
Severe thunderstorms hammered Illinois and Indiana on Sunday, leaving more than 30,000 customers without power.
According to NIPSCO, more than 35,000 Indiana customers were without power as of 9 p.m. Sunday, with Valparaiso in Porter County especially hard-hit.
There, wind gusts in excess of 80 miles per hour were reported, and with power lines downed and damaged, more than 9,000 customers were without power according to the utility.
Another 1,000 customers in Chesterton were without power, and nearly 1,800 in Hebron were in the dark Sunday afternoon.
Significant outages were also reported in Hammond and Westville, with over 3,000 customers affected in the two areas combined.
In Illinois, the bulk of the outages were reported in Cook County, where more than 700 customers were without power, according to ComEd. Earlier in the day, over 4,000 had been without power.
Over 300 were also left without power in Kankakee County as of 9 p.m. Sunday.
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Powerful wind gusts in excess of 60 miles per hour were recorded around the area thanks to the fast-moving storms, which have mostly moved out of the area as of 3:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
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