MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Strong storm swept the northern part of the state Sunday afternoon resulting in more the 40,000 power outages, doxens of trees down, and damaged powerlines.

The storm included a record breaking wind gust at the North Central West Virginia Airport of 71 miles per hour at 12:22 p.m. beating the previous record of 67 miles per hour recorded in April of 1991.

As of 1 p.m. Monday, First Energy reported about 2,300 customers without power in Harrison County, Marion County reported about 400 and Monongalia County had about 500 without power. Mon Power spokesman Will Boye estimates all customers will have electricity by 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 18.

“Our crews have restored power to more than 80 percent of the 44,000 customers that were impacted by the weekend weather,” Boye said. ” We are working to restore service as quickly and as safely as we can to the folks who remain without service.”

Director of Emergency Management In Harrison County Pegi Bailey said some of the restoration work is hampered by circuit issues.

“The circuit leads back to a switch, so they have to check the entire circuit before they can throw the switch,” Bailey said. ” So, they start there and look for damaged poles, downed lines, or trees.”

In Monongalia County, MECCA 911 Executive Director Jim Smith said the reports of damage started to roll in early afternoon and most of the reports were trees and powerlines down.

“We’re looking at about 40 calls for trees down in the area and some of the calls had multiple trees down,” Smith said.

Smith said through all of the investigation no serious injuries have been reported to date.

In Harrison County where the record wind gust was recorded they fielded multiple reports of trees and powerlines down, but no serious injuries.

It was pretty much downed power poles and trees,” Bailey said. ” The City of Clarksburg did have a structure that collapsed, but it was a pretty dilapidated structure to begin with.”

Smith said in Monongalia County there were likely some close calls due to the number of trees into houses, but no serious injuries were reported.

“We did have several calls where trees had fallen against homes and luckily we had no reports of injuries with those,” Smith said.

In Monongalia County, some roads were closed for an extended time while officials waited for power crews to de-energize the lines so debris could be removed from the driving surface.

“We had multiple roads that were closed because trees and powerlines were coming down and blocking the road,” Smith said. ” And of course we had to wait for the power company out to get the lines turned off and get the pines cleared.”

Boye said crews are working around the clock to get power restored for all customers affected by severe weather activity.

“Some of the hardest areas in Doddridge, Harrison and Monongalia Counties have a restoration time of tomorrow at 2 p.m. (Tuesday, March 18),” Boye said. “Many folks will be restored before then but that is the estimated time of restoration we have for the very last customer.”