UPDATE: Power restored to portions of Hays, Victoria hit by Thursday outage

The lights were back on after a short-lived power outage that began about 3 p.m. Thursday in portions of Hays and the surrounding area.

A cause of the outage has yet to be reported. At one point, nearly 6,000 customers were reported being without power.

As of 4:20 p.m., Midwest Energy was reporting power had been restored to all customers.

Click HERE for the Midwest Energy outage viewer.