Gallery: Windstorm barrels over power poles and trees near Blackfoot Friday

Gusts exceeding 50 miles an hr uprooted trees and blew complete powerfulness poles successful nan Blackfoot region Friday evening.

The harm started astatine astir 5:52 p.m. successful Taber and moved from nan northwest to nan southeast done Rockford, Moreland and into Blackfoot until 7:15 p.m.

“We had nan 5 powerfulness poles down up successful Taber, but besides we had a powerfulness outage that covered astir of nan Blackfoot area,” Kevin Smith, a meteorologist pinch nan National Weather Service’s Pocatello office, said.

The outage affected astir 7,700 Idaho Power customers, he reported.

Most of nan energy was restored betwixt 8:30 p.m. and 2 a.m.

Power lines besides went down adjacent Moreland and Blackfoot, and 1 location mislaid a ample number of shingles.

Weather stations recorded speeds of 59 miles an hr 1 mile southwest of Gibson, 53 miles an hr 3 miles westbound of Taber and 40 miles an hr successful Blackfoot.

“Yesterday we had a very dry, low-level situation present successful southeast Idaho that’s conducive to beardown outflow winds, you know, beardown winds coming retired of showers and thunderstorms. We saw immoderate activity passim nan day,” Smith said.

The National Weather Service is still calculating an estimate of nan full financial damages caused by nan precocious winds.

No injuries, fatalities aliases awesome structural harm were reported from nan storm.

A conifer character was uprooted by nan upwind during Friday’s storm. | Courtesy Brittany Ann Carlson via National Weather Service

A ample conifer character fell complete successful southbound Blackfoot. | Courtesy Jenny Collier via National Weather Service

Tree limbs hide a plaything group successful Blackfoot. | Courtesy Taylor Peterson via National Weather Service

Another character blown complete during Friday’s windstorm. | Courtesy Melody White via National Weather Service

Tree harm is evident astatine Blackfoot High School. | Courtesy Lisa Clark via National Weather Service

The upwind ripped nan singles disconnected of this home. | Courtesy Christine Jackson via National Weather Service