More than 56,000 without power after storms move through metro Atlanta, north GA

Tens of thousands of people across metro Atlanta and north Georgia are currently without power after strong and severe storms moved through .

Most of metro Atlanta and north Georgia was under a Severe Thunderstorm Watch until 10 p.m.

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Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Ashley Kramlich says the greatest threat will be for heavy rain, frequent lightning and strong, damaging wind gusts.

According to Georgia Power’s outage map , more than 22,000 of their customers across metro Atlanta and north Georgia are without power.

Georgia Electric Membership Corporation says 25,000 of their customers in metro Atlanta and another 7,000 in north Georgia don’t have power.

GreyStone Power Corporation says they have fewer than people in the western part of the metro Atlanta area who are affected. Earlier, there were as many as 2,000

According to those maps, approximately 57,383 are currently without power in the area.

Severe Weather Team 2 has the latest forecasts and tracking on WSBTV.com and on WSB Tonight at 11 p.m.

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