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Power outage reported in northern Horry County, thunderstorms expected tonight

More than 800 Horry Electric Cooperative members were without power for a couple hours Friday afternoon, according to the company’s outage site.

The outage was reported at 2:39 p.m. Friday and power was restored by 4 p.m., according to Horry Electric’s outage site. It had impacted 831 members living along S.C. 9 and S.C. 905 in the Longs and Little Town communities.

Forecasters with the National Weather Sevice in Wilmington, N.C., were tracking a line of thunderstorms moving through the area Friday afternoon.

The change of rain was 60 percent throughout the night and up to a half inch of rain was expected from the storms, forecasters said.

More information will be posted as it becomes available.

Contact TONYA ROOT at 444-1723 or on Twitter @tonyaroot.

This story was originally published July 3, 2015 at 3:06 PM with the headline "Power outage reported in northern Horry County, thunderstorms expected tonight."

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