COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Approximately 20,000 AEP customers were without power following a wave of strong storms in central Ohio, which caused localized flooding and damaging winds Thursday morning. According to the American Electric Power outage tracking map, 11,000 customers remain without po wer, as of 8:45 a.m. Thursday, with 341 total outage cases reported. Overnight high winds, damaged trees and heavy rain contributed to storm damage in and around the Franklin County area, causing over 20,000 customers to be in the dark early Thursday morning. Central Ohio traffic conditions Franklin County is reporting around 449 customer outages, while counties south and east of the area also experiencing outages. Licking County is reporting 600 outages, along with Perry County (600), Fairfield County (800), while Athens, Hocking, Muskingum, Vinton, Jackson, Gallia, Meigs, Morgan, Pike, Scioto and Guernsey counties are all experiencing outages affecting between 100 and 500 customers. You can track outages statewide in the map below. ...read more read less