Friday Thunderstorm Knocks Out Power in Arlington, Alexandria

A heavy thunderstorm with rain and high winds is rolling through Alexandria and Arlington Friday afternoon and some homes may be seeing power outages.

The National Weather Service Severe Thunderstorm Warning continues for the area until 4:30 p.m.

According to Channel 7 at about 3:45 p.m., more than 20,000 are without power in parts of Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax County, although a Dominion Power map did not show the outages at the time.

You can keep track of power outages at Dominion Power's interactive power outage map.

Tweets from some weather watchers noted the severity of the storm:

Capital Weather Gang: "S. Arlington and Alexandria catching brunt of this storm w/ outages, hail, wind. Headed towards SW DC and W C PG co."

Alex Liggitt: "54mph wind gust reported in Annandale with the storms pushing through Alexandria now"

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(UPDATE, 4:51 p.m.)

Across Northern Virginia, Dominion is aware of about 35,000 customers without power — most in Arlington, Alexandria and the Springfield area of Fairfax County, spokeswoman Le-Ha Anderson told Patch.

Dominion crews have been dispatched and were beginning to assess damage and make repairs as of about 4:45 p.m.

"That was a pretty powerful storm that came through, lots of lightning," Anderson said. "Some of our equipment was struck by lightning."

The power company does not yet have an estimate as to when electricity will be restored.