UPDATED 10:09AM Saturday:   Friday night's severe weather caused sporatic power outages, and knocked off 2 Miller Media Group radio stations, but no reports of injuries or damage.

As of 10am Saturday according to the Ameren outage map, 682 customers in the Strasburg area were without power.   Sporatic power outages have power out to numerous customers in Decatur, Atwood, Hammond, Lovington, Arthur, Charleston, and Windsor.

Shelby Electric Coop's Facebook page reported numerous outages at the height of the storm Friday in 10 different communities including Taylorville.   The last of the outages in Assumption and Windsor were restored by 9am Saturday morning.

WMKR Genuine Country 94.3 and WRAN groovy 97.3 were knocked off the air last night, and are operating on their backup transmitters from their Park Street studios in Taylorville just covering that city and about a 7-mile radius.   Station personnel are on their way to various locations to troubleshoot and get both stations back on-the-air as of 9:20am Saturday.

National Weather Service storm reports from their Lincoln web site indicate high winds in Springfield and Decatur, and a confirmed tornado touchdown near Trilla between Mattoon and Effingham.   A confirmed funnel cloud was also reported near Watson west of Effingham.

The St. Louis area appears to have suffered the brunt of the storm, with as many as 4 tornadoes touching down thru-out the Metro area.   Injury and damage reports are still coming in.

No injuries have been reported in the Regional Radio listening area from last night's severe weather.