A storm sweeping through the San Francisco Bay Area knocked out power to more than 7,000 customers across the Peninsula and South Bay on Thursday morning, according to Pacific Gas & Electric Co. The company issued a power outage alert in San Mateo County at 8:23 a.m., initially reporting 4,107 customers affected in neighborhoods including Brentwood Park, Avalon Park and Crestmoor 2. At 9:03 a.m., the utility updated the alert to say 2,929 customers were impacted in that outage area.
Yosemite, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa Madera Foothills and Mariposa-Madera Lower Sierra were placed under an updated report for strong thunderstorms by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 8:29 p.m. The alert is in effect until 9 p.m. The storms are packing pea-sized hail (0.25 inches). At 8:29 p.m., Doppler radar tracked a strong thunderstorm over Bootjack, or 16 miles west of Yosemite South Entrance, moving northeast at 30 mph, states the NWS Hanford CA.
