After Thursday night's powerful storm, thousands are waking up to assess the damage to their property.
What happened?
Wind, lightning, rain, and hail are all the ingredients necessary for a severe storm.
Meteorologist Trent Magill provides an update in the player below:
Tornado Warnings were issued, but at this time, it is not believed that anything touched down.
Thousands of lightning strikes were reported, which led to power outages.
In Fairport Harbor, 81 miles per hour wind gusts were reported.
Power outages
As of 7 a.m. on Friday, FirstEnergy reported outages in the following counties:
- Cuyahoga County: 13,356.
- Lake County: 2,977.
Cleveland damage
Among the damage incidents reported in Cleveland was a close call — a vehicle was nearly crushed by a 130-year-old factory wall that collapsed during the storms in the Saint Hyacinth neighborhood. See video of it below:
RELATED: Vehicle nearly crushed by wall from partly-demolished factory in Cleveland during Thursday's storms
Westlake damage
In Westlake, the strong winds brought down multiple tree limbs in back and front yards.
Multiple tree branches broke off and crashed onto a children’s playground—destroying everything around it along Creekside Drive.
No injuries were reported.
However, multiple homes lost power.
Mentor-on-the-Lake and Shaker Heights damage
In Lake County, Mentor-on-the-Lake was one of the communities hit hardest by Thursday night's storms.
Some roads in the town are down to one lane due to fallen trees and downed power lines.
Shaker Heights in Cuyahoga County was also hit hard.
Take a look at footage captured by AirTracker5 in those two communities:
@news5cleveland AirTracker 5 got an aerial view of some serious damage east of Cleveland from last night's storms. See more on the News 5 app. #storm #stormdamage #severeweather #ohio ♬ original sound - news5cleveland
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