Strong winds in parts of Maine knocked out power to more than 22,000 Central Maine Power customers on Friday afternoon.

By midday Saturday, power had been restored to almost all CMP customers, according to the utility’s outage tracker.

York County was hardest hit with outages, with nearly 11,000 reported by 2:30 p.m. Friday, according to the CMP website. More than 4,000 outages were reported Friday in Cumberland County, 2,700 in Oxford County, 2,200 in Sagadahoc County and 1,700 in Kennebec County.

As of noon Saturday, there were still about 1,200 outages in Oxford County and between 300 and 500 each in Androscoggin, Cumberland, Franklin, Kennebec and York counties.

The utility company said on its website that it had called in extra crews to respond to outages but that high winds were expected to continue into Saturday. For safety reasons, CMP crews do not raise bucket truck arms when winds exceed 30 mph.

Source: Central Maine Power

Versant Power, which serves northern and eastern parts of the state, reported just under 600 outages in Penobscot County at 2:30 p.m. Friday. By midday Saturd

The National Weather Service in Gray said winds of 15 to 25 mph would gust to 50 mph, elevating the threat of outages. The strong winds were expected to down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects, according to the weather service.

The weather service issued a wind advisory for Cumberland, York, Oxford, Franklin, Somerset, Kennebec, Androscoggin and Waldo counties that was in effect until 7 p.m. Friday.

A gale warning was in effect until 11 p.m. Friday for Casco and Penobscot bays.