COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Nearly 1,300 Ameren customers were without power in Cole County on Thursday. The outage began at 7:14 p.m., after a strong cell entered the area. There were 1,264 customers without power at 7:54 p.m. Power was mostly restored before 9:50 p.m. Ameren's map then showed Osage County having 537 customers without power at 9:50 p.m. It received its first outage report in that county before 8:30 p.m. Another 56 Osage County members of Three Rivers Electric Cooperative were without power at 9:50 p.m. High winds were the cause of concern for Thursday, with the ABC 17 News Stormtrack Weather Team declaring Thursday a Weather Alert Day. Check back for updates The post Power returns in Cole County; Osage County sees hundreds without power appeared first on ABC17NEWS. ...read more read less