5K Entergy customers out of power during Saturday afternoon thunderstorm
EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH - More than 5,000 Entergy customers are in the dark after a thunderstorm rolled through the area Saturday afternoon.
WBRZ Weather stats say the thunderstorm formed in the area around 3:30 p.m.
As of 4:45, more than 7,000 customers were out of power - including 5,197 customers in East Baton Rouge Parish.
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The majority of outages seem to be in the Jefferson Trace and Hidden Grove neighborhoods. A tree that fell near the corner of Stumberg Lane and Quail Meadow Drive took out powerlines. The estimated restoration for that area is 7:30 p.m.