Severe thunderstorms cause widespread damage in Butler County

Jason and Lisa Rankey shared this photo of a possible funnel cloud taken from their Reily Twp. house in Butler County looking south toward Indiana. The image was taken at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2024. CONTRIBUTED

Jason and Lisa Rankey shared this photo of a possible funnel cloud taken from their Reily Twp. house in Butler County looking south toward Indiana. The image was taken at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2024. CONTRIBUTED

A line of severe thunderstorms Tuesday evening brought damage across the area.

In Butler County, that included four separate tornado warnings from the National Weather Service in Wilmington, as well as two severe thunderstorm warnings and one flash flood warning.

Damage from the storms include damage to structures and trees, knocking out power to more than 4,000 Duke Energy customers at its peak.

On Stillwell Beckett Road in Hanover Twp., power lines were knocked down across the road. A little further down the road, a silo was blown into the street, with pieces of metal in neighboring yards.

Credit: Nick Graham

The NWS said it would conduct storm damage surveys during the day on Wednesday.

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