Over 5,000 Central Virginia homes, businesses without power due to severe storms

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Over 5,000 homes and businesses are without power on Thursday as severe storms batter Central Virginia.

Central Virginia is seeing severe thunderstorms and flash floods on the afternoon of Thursday, June 26 -- particularly in the Richmond region. This severe weather is causing power outages throughout the area.

As of 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, about 5,313 Dominion Energy customers are without power. Those outages include homes and businesses in the following localities:

• Henrico County: 3,707 homes and businesses
• City of Richmond: 1,136 homes and businesses
• Hanover County: 297 homes and businesses
• Chesterfield County: 173 homes and businesses

At the peak of the outage, over 9,100 customers were impacted.

For more information or to look up the time of restoration within your area, click here to view Dominion Energy's Outage Map.