Lightning and strong winds create one-two punch, leading to thousands of outages

SOUTHEAST TEXAS — The Jasper-Newton Electric Cooperative and Entergy are reporting thousands of power outages tonight across Southeast Texas.

About 16,000 JNEC customers were in the dark Tuesday night and 4,500+ Entergy customers, primarily in Tyler County.

That was as of 10 p.m. The numbers were increasing every few minutes.