Thunder, lightning, high winds and heavy rains rolled through Lawrence early this morning, knocking out power in 3,500 homes and wreaking havoc to campers gathered at Clinton Lake for a music festival.

Karla Olsen, a Westar spokeswoman, said that by 9 a.m. power was to have been restored to the final 500 Lawrence customers effected by the outage.

Olsen said the outages were scattered around the city and, because of the amount of Westar equipment affected, it would be some time before the exact causes and locations could be pinpointed.

The high winds knocked over some tents and portable restrooms at Clinton State Park, where campers gathered for this weekend’s Wakarusa Music Festival, according to M.K. Miner, who sent in the photos at right.

The rest of the day should be dry, cool and cloudy, said Matt Sayers, 6News meteorologist,

“Those rains are pretty much out of here,” Sayers said.

Lawrence Municipal Airport received 1.33 inches of rain from the downpour, which moved in just after 3 a.m.

“Between 4 and 5 we saw over an inch. A lot was out there. It was a torrential rainfall,” Sayers said. The severe weather brought winds gusting up to 60 to 70 mph through Douglas County.

But the brunt of the storm was gone by 5 a.m., Sayers said.

Temperatures will remain in the 60s through the morning, which is 10 to 15 degrees below normal, he said.

“There’s not a lot of sunshine, so temperatures will not warm up much at all,” he said. The high will be 73 today, with cool weather in the 70s continuing through the weekend.

“You can open up your windows for today, tonight and tomorrow,” he said.

Saturday’s morning low will be 61, with the high climbing to 74 by 4 p.m. under partly cloudy skies.

Sunday’s morning low will be 60, with the high of 79 and a 20 to 30 percent chance of rain.

For Monday, the official start of summer, the low will be 62, with high climbing to 84 and a chance of rain in the late afternoon and evening, he said.

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