A thunderstorm roared through the county Thursday evening leaving behind downed lines and trees along with power outage. Fire crews responded to a downed power line on Beckert Avenue. According to a group of children eyewitnesses at the scene the tree broke the wire and the transformer located at the intersection of Virginia Avenue and Beckert Avenue.

Butler County saw damage from scattered storms Thursday.

“I was in my house at the time,” said Tommi Coyle of Butler. “It just randomly came in super fast. It started pouring.”

Coyle said a tree fell and hit her home, causing some damage to the roof, the gutters and the siding, but nothing too severe and no one was hurt.

“Once the wind started picking up, the tree cracked in half,” she said. “It looked like it was a microburst or something.”

The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh issued a severe thunderstorm warning for northern Butler County and five other counties.

The warning was issued until 5:30 p.m. Thursday, and the storm itself appeared to pass in that timeframe. A second smaller storm also passed through the county.

Butler County 911 dispatchers continued to get phone calls for downed trees and power lines throughout the night.

“We had trees down on wires, transformers sparking or arcing,” said Butler Fire Lt. Donald Crawford.Crawford said there were a few other routine calls unrelated to the storm, but the calls were largely uneventful and did not require any emergency services.“Nobody's cars or homes were harmed,” he said. “Nobody was trapped in their houses,”The weather service had warned of hazardous gusts up to 60 mph.West Penn Power reported as many as 5,800 customers without power. Worst affected was Cranberry Township, which was listed as having 2,104 customers without power out of the 14,818 customers in that municipality.Central Electric Cooperative reported 3,871 of its 9,683 customers were without power, with Clearfield Township— 1,048 of 1,049 customers — and Summit Township — 827 of 897 customers — the hardest hit.The companies both estimated that power would be restored to customers by 10:30 p.m. Thursday.While most of the disturbance was from downed trees and lines, there were also some reports of localized flooding.

A thunderstorm roared through Butler County Thursday evening, damaging trees and power lines. Pictured is a downed tree, cable and power line on the 400 block of North McKean Street in Butler.