Nearly 58,000 homes and businesses remain without electricity following severe storms across Arkansas that left at least 11 people dead.
Entergy Arkansas reported more than 47,000 outages on April 27 with the largest number being more than 9,400 in Garland County. Entergy also has more than 4,700 outages in Faulkner County where a tornado struck Vilonia and left four people dead.
Six other people died in flooding in the state. Another person was killed April 26 in a storm in Sharp County but details have not been released.
First Electric Cooperative reports nearly 9,400 outages with more than half, nearly 5,800, in Saline County. Southwest Power Company reports almost 1,200 outages.
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