Nearly 4,000 homes and business lost electricity Wednesday evening in southeastern St. Joseph.

According to the KCP&L Power outage map, the outage area ran from U.S. 36 Highway south nearly to Faucett, Mo. along I-29. The area extended just east of the interstate and west to an area west of 22nd St.

By about 5:15 p.m. the map no longer showed the outages, but at the peak, 3,911 customers were without power. It was not immediately known what caused the outage.

There were some smaller, scattered outages in other areas, including County Club Village and Lewis & Clark Village. The Kansas City area continues to show numerous outages that have been active since severe weather crossed the area Wednesday afternoon.