BALTIMORE — UPDATE: As of 8pm, just over 34,000 customers were without power. BGE says the outages represent 640 individual restoration jobs across the region. It is estimated that the majority of customers will be restored by 11pm on Thursday, July 30th.
These estimates may also change based on damage at outage sites.
UPDATE: As of 6:41 p.m., 34,325 residents are without power. BGE says there are 457 active outages.
ORIGINAL STORY:
Over 18,000 people are without power due to severe weather impacting Maryland BGE reports.
As of 6:12 p.m., there are 250 active outages, leaving 18,620 people without power. The majority of residents without power are in Baltimore City and County.
The storms that hit Maryland produced damaging wind gusts, hail and heavy rainfall.
A tornado warning was issued for Harford, Cecil and Anne Arundel counties.
This story will continue to be updated.
