NV Energy restores most power lost Saturday in Carson City and Douglas County
NV Energy was able to restore power to much of Carson City and Douglas County overnight, following severe thunderstorms around the region with strikes and surges affecting transformers and stations.
As of 11 this morning there was one outage affecting 8 customers in Carson City and four outages affecting 20 customers in Douglas County. Nearly 12,000 customers were affected Saturday. The National Weather Service and the BLM say there were more than 1,500 lightning strikes around western Nevada and the Sierra from Saturday's thunderstorms.
The National Weather Service says today the highest risk of storms will be from 1 to 9 p.m. along the Sierra up into Reno, Portola, and Susanville areas, though isolated storms could develop over the Highway 95 corridor too. The above photo is a screen capture of one possible scenario showing a forecast radar for between 3 to 5 p.m.
If morning clouds break up allowing the atmosphere to destabilize enough, some severe storms with lightning, heavy rains, small hail, and strong outflow winds are likely. If the clouds hold on, that would limit how strong the storms get.