Power has been restored to customers south of Interstate 70 between Hays and Ellis after a brief power outage.

Midwest Energy spokesman said the short-lived outage affected about 250 customers. The most likely cause, he said, was a combine that came into contact with a pole outside the Midwest service area, which opened a break at a Midwest substation.

Power was rerouted and was restored to all customers at about 7 p.m., according to the company’s outage viewer. The outage lasted only about a half hour.