Severe storms across the region packed high winds, large hail and flash flooding Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.

About 1,000 KCP&L customers in St Joseph lost electrical power overnight. By 5am, that number was reduced to just over 600 customers in the dark. Nearly 18,000 customers throughout the KCP&L service area were in the dark during the peak outage overnight, with more than 17,000 in Missouri, and over 700 in Kansas.

High water and downed trees caused some problems in St Joseph overnight, but police report the situation had returned to normal by Wednesday morning.

A large tree down blocked the intersection of 7th and Mcdonald streets in St Joseph.

High water reached three foot depths in a couple of areas of St Joe, including 6th and Atchison Streets, and at 32nd and Messanie.

In Agency, a trained spotter measured 3 inches in 45 minutes. In St Joseph, over three hours, we received more than two and a half inches of rain.

Flash flooding was reported in Doniphan County, Kansas, where water was running across 180th Road and highway 130, at 170th Road and Ash Point and along Highway 20 west of Highway 7.

Storm reports overnight indicated wind gusts reaching over 60 miles per hour in Northwest Missouri. In Grundy County, law enforcement reported a 30-inch diameter tree snapped by high winds.

In Clay County, Missouri, law enforcement reported 50 to 60 mile-per-hour wind gusts, snapping ten inch tree limbs.

Police reported parts of trees and pole barns strewn along 48 highway west of King City in Gentry County.

Spotters in southeastern Nebraska reported hail the size of softballs. In Northwest Missouri there were widespread reports of hail ranging from pea-sized to quarter-sized.