(La Porte County, IN) - NIPSCO was dealing with more than 100,000 power outages from last night’s storm that included at least one confirmed tornado.

 

According to the NIPSCO website, more than 4,000 customers in its La Porte service area were without service this morning while over 600 customer outages were reported in Michigan City.

 

NIPSCO also reported more than 500 customer service outages this morning are in the small lakefront community of Beverly Shores and well over 1,000 outages in its Knox service area.

 

Other cities with power outages this morning included Chesterton with more than 7,000 and Portage, which had over 9,000 customers without service this morning.

 

The tornado touchdown in the Crown Point area is believed to have continued on into Porter County as part of a strong storm system that moved through the area.

 

A number of other tornadoes are suspected to have touched down in the region.