A line of thunderstoms blew through the region on Saturday afternoon, bringing strong winds, hail and lightning and knocking down trees and utility lines cutting power to thousands.
Trees were reported down in Lebanon, Bethel and near the South Royalton green.
Power lines were down along Dogford Road in Etna.
More than 26,000 Green Mountain Power customers were without electricity last evening, including thousands in the Upper Valley.
The utility reported 3,000 outages in Randolph, 2,800 in Royalton, 2,500 in Hartford, 1,700 in Fairlee, almost 1,500 in Bradford, 1,200 in Thetford, 1,100 in Sharon and about 1,000 more in Norwich, Tunbridge and Chelsea.
Smaller numbers of outages were reported in Bethel, Woodstock, Barnard, Pomfret, Hartland and Strafford.
Crews had restored power to some 3,500 customers as of last evening, GMP said in a news release.
“This was an incredibly intense storm causing extensive damage across the state,” said Kristin Carlson, GMP’s chief communications executive. “Crews are working to restore power and even with additional crews that we are bringing in, we expect restoration efforts could continue into Monday for the some of the areas most badly hit.”
In New Hampshire, Eversource reported 43,764 outages, including every one of its 2,193 customers in Grantham and all but one of its 627 customers in Lyme. Meanwhile, just one of its 389 customers in Plainfield was affected by the storm.
In New London, 850 were without power last night, Eversource said, along with 411 in Croydon, 208 in Claremont, 89 in Grafton, 68 in Haverhill, 63 in Enfield, 22 in Cornish and 17 in Hanover.
Liberty Utilities, which serves parts of Canaan, Charlestown, Cornish, Enfield, Grafton, Hanover, Lebanon and Plainfield, reported no incidents and no customers affected by the storm on its website at 10:50 last night. Attempts to reach a Liberty Utilities representative by telephone were unsuccessful.
“We had a combination of conditions that we in meteorology dread, as it produced quite a fierce thunderstorm,” Roger Hill, a meteorologist at Weathering Heights, said in the GMP release.
“The strongest winds moved through some of the state’s most populated areas, with winds that probably exceeded 60 miles per hour in some locations.”
The forecast calls for more storms to arrive Monday.