Hemlock Road in the City of Warren and Glade Township was the focus of storm damage Sunday afternoon. The brick facade on a building at 5 Hemlock fell onto a parked vehicle and the road was closed Monday due to numerous trees down.

A brick wall fell on a vehicle as the first of two storms passed through Warren County Sunday afternoon.

The City of Warren Fire Department responded to 5 Hemlock St., for a “confined space” call at 2:12 p.m. “That came in as a building collapse,” Chief Dave Krogler said.

Upon arrival, firefighters saw that a brick facade from the side of the building had fallen on a parked vehicle. There was no entrapment and were no injuries as a result of the incident.

“We conducted a walk-through of the structure and observed no structural problems,” Krogler said.

The storm continued to the east after knocking over the wall. Hemlock Road in Glade Township was the site of numerous trees down. The road remained closed Monday afternoon.

Times Observer photos by Brian Ferry City of Warren Department of Public Works crews were out cleaning up debris, including at Betts Park, after two different storms raged through Warren County Sunday afternoon and Monday morning.

A second storm — a severe thunderstorm raged through the county, dropping about 2.5 inches of rain in some areas and lighting up the sky with frequent flashes of lightning early Monday.

That storm was accompanied by a tornado warning that went out at 12:49 a.m. and lasted through 1:15 a.m. in northern Warren County based on “radar-indicated rotation,” according to Warren County Public Safety Director Ken McCorrison.

The county’s weather sirens were activated along with that warning.

There were no reports of tornadoes in the county following the storm.

But there was extensive wind damage throughout the county.

Trees and limbs were down and some utility poles snapped.

The city fire department responded to a group of people trapped in an elevator at 108 Oak St. at 1:36 a.m.

Krogler said there were three people trapped in the elevator between the first and second floors. Firefighters were able to open the doors, get the passengers out, and put the elevator out of service, he said.

There were several locations in the county where more than 100 customers had no power as of Monday afternoon, but circumstances could have been worse. “I was expecting to see thousands of people without power,” McCorrison said.

According to First Energy’s Power Center, there were still customers out in Garland, Grand Valley, Spring Creek, Columbus, Warren, Clarendon, and Sheffield, with larger outages in Barnes and Youngsville.

A Penelec representative told McCorrison that there are extra crews working and “they felt they could get a strong majority of it cleared up by 6 p.m.” Monday.