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A Saturday afternoon storm packing high winds in Texas County disrupted electrical service and caused some damage, authorities said.
Intercounty Electric Cooperative Association reported about 3,000 customers without power in its service area at one time, including about 900 in Texas County at about 4:30 p.m. Most of those are in the Licking area. Outages were also reported at Cabool.
By Sunday morning, Intercounty had narrowed the outages to about 400 in Crawford and Dent counties.
Structural damage occurred at Licking. A roof was blown off a building near Main Street and Highway 32 in the downtown business district. It landed on a vehicle. There were no injuries, authorities said.