Jun 7, 2026 By Garrett Neese 3 min read

Thousands remained without power Sunday a day after storms ripped through Southwest Pennsylvania, damaging buildings and knocking down trees and power lines.

The thunderstorms that came in Saturday afternoon brought straight-line winds to the three-county area and beyond, causing damage similar to — and in some cases surpassing — that of a tornado, the National Weather Service’s Pittsburgh office said Sunday in a call for storm reports.

Embedded tornadoes may have also formed in Washington and Fayette counties, the NWS said. The Pittsburgh office said on its Facebook page it will deploy teams Monday to the areas where a tornado was most likely to have hit.

At the peak of the storm, around 126,000 customers in Fayette, Greene and Washington counties were without power, Greene County Emergency Management said in a Facebook post Sunday. By 10 a.m. Sunday, electricity was still out for about 19,484 customers in Fayette County, along with 11,878 in Washington and 1,455 in Greene.

No injuries had been reported to county emergency centers Sunday, though all reported continued outages and road closures.

In Greene County, straight-line winds had gusted up to 70 to 80 mph, said Emergency Management Director Richard Policz. Multiple roads were still closed in the county Sunday morning, though main roads were open, he said.

“There’s places that trees are still down that larger equipments have to be brought in to help remove them,” he said. “There’s also trees down with power lines, so we can’t touch them until West Penn clears that.”

Greene County also sent ambulances to Morgantown, W.Va., to assist at the West Virginia University Super Regionals baseball game. Shortly after the game was delayed, winds blew a canopy partially down the hill overlooking the stadium, injuring five people.

Damage in Fayette was dispersed throughout the county, a Fayette County 911 supervisor said.

Bullskin Township Fire Department said in its Facebook page Sunday multiple road closures were still in effect throughout the township, along with multiple trees and power lines downed.

The Dairy Queen in Perryopolis had to remove its vintage neon sign after it was toppled by high winds.

In Washington County, an emergency supervisor reported downed lines and trees and other common storm damage, with the brunt occurring in the southern and eastern parts of the county.

There were also several closures of back roads in the county, the supervisor said.

511PA showed road closures due to debris in Amwell Township and various points in West Finley Township.