BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) -- Storms left thousands without power in East Baton Rouge Parish Friday afternoon.

Entergy's outage map reported over 2,000 power outages in East Baton Rouge Parish around 1:30 p.m.

As of 2 p.m., the number of impacted customers has dropped to 207.

Scattered showers and thunderstorms are forecasted to move across southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi, with the possibility of heavy rain in some areas. The Baton Rouge area could get 1-2 inches of rain Friday.

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