According to the Jamestown Board of Public Utilities, widespread power outages were reported are reported on streets such as Fifth, Sixth, Euclid, Crossman, Weeks, Lakeview, Ellicott Street by King and some east side streets.

In addition to the city, trees were scattered outages in Dunkirk, Stockton, Gerry, Ellery, Ellicott, Kennedy, Poland, Randolph, South Valley, Carroll, Busti, Kiantone and Harmony. Threes were reported down in Lakewood, Jamestown, Forestville, Sinclairville, Frewsburg, Ashville and Falconer.

A fatality was reported as a result of a Thursday evening storm that caused widespread damage.

According to City of Warren Police Chief Joe Sproveri, a man who was outside during the storm was killed when a tree fell on him along Fourth Avenue.

Pictured is the site of a tree which fell and killed a Warren man on Thursday. Photo by Brian Ferry

Officials are working on contacting the man’s next of kin and have not released any further details.

No other injuries were immediately reported, but the storm swept through the county and beyond.

Public Safety Ken McCorrison said winds of 70 miles per hour were reported at Bradford Airport and damages were reported in Erie County.

Calls were coming into the 911 Center from all over the county. “Every workstation was overwhelmed. That last tornado was not as busy as this,” McCorrison said. “This was not a Warren City thing.”

He said nearly every fire department in the county was called out to respond to something.

There were many trees and wires down across roadways including Route 6, Route 957, Route 666, Route 948, and “I can’t begin to say how many ancillary roads” blocking traffic, he said. “There wasn’t travel east-west in the county.”

A tree fell onto a building at the Suites at Rouse.

There were reports of trees on cars with people inside.

And, amid the chaos of the storm, “we had multiple EMS calls and a missing child,” McCorrison said.

All of those calls were handled and the child found.

The county’s new P25 radio system was put to the test and worked, although there was so much traffic, there was overlap on some channels.

The City of Warren Department of Public Works was out Thursday evening picking up, but not cleaning up. “We’re stacking debris,” Superintendent Joe Reinke said. “Tomorrow, clean-up will begin. There is damage on every street in the city limits, it seems.”

Crew will be out with chippers to dispose of the debris.