Storms knock out power to 15,000 in west Little Rock

A pedestrian is buffeted by winds and rain as a storm rolls over downtown Little Rock on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Colin Murphey)
A pedestrian is buffeted by winds and rain as a storm rolls over downtown Little Rock on Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022. (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/Colin Murphey)

Roughly 15,000 Little Rock residents are out of power after a small wave of storms moved through Central Arkansas on Wednesday afternoon.

An Entergy Arkansas spokesperson confirmed the outages were storm related and said damage was still be assessed as of 4 p.m. 

According to Entergy's outage map, there were 70 outages affecting 15,639 customers in west Little Rock at 3:55 p.m. 

The bulk of the outages were located along Interstate 430, north of Interstate 630, including the Rodney Parham Road corridor.  


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