NEW ORLEANS — More than 19,000 people had their power knocked out in Jefferson Parish Tuesday morning.
According to the Entergy power outage map, 19,200 customers were without power in a large outage spanning across Kenner, Metairie and River Ridge at 9:45 a.m.
The cause of the outage was not immediately known, and Entergy officials said they had crews on scene responding to the problem. They reported that all power was restored as of 11:30 a.m.
Jefferson Parish Councilman Scott Walker tweeted that three transformers were down at a substation in the area, although an official cause for the outage was not immediately available.
More than 10,000 Entergy customers were without power in the 70003 zip code, as well as 6,100 people in the 70123 zip code and 2,600 in the 70062 zip code.
The outages were centered around David Drive and appear to go as far north as Veterans Boulevard.
The outage came as near-record high temperatures continue to plague the metro area. A heat advisory is in effect until 8 p.m. Tuesday, with the heat index feeling like 108-113 degrees in certain areas.
It follows another huge outage over the weekend that left 21,000 customers without power in New Orleans. Entergy official said that outage was caused by equipment failure at one of their substations, but added that unusually high temperatures could have contributed to the problem.
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