Tefft was at a friend’s house near the family’s grape fields when a funnel cloud began forming in the sky about 30-50 feet away.

“It was really raining, storming, really windy,” Tefft said. “But it really didn’t stay around that long. It disappeared and then went farther away. I got a picture of it right before it disappeared.”

Reports included a tree bringing down an electric line in Dunkirk, a tree down blocking a road in Sinclairville, a tree and power lines down in Cassadaga, trees and electric lines down in Dewittville, barn debris all over a road in Dewittville.

Several roads in the Ellington area were impassable for stretches of the evening, including a portion of Route 62 after a mud and rocks slid from a hill onto the road.

Some of the damage created by the storms at a farm on Barnes Road outside Mayville. Photo by Mike Mattson

An estimated 84 people were without power in Chautauqua and Portland with another 26 without power in Charlotte. Two outages affecting about 136 people were reported in the North Collins area. Busti had 25 people without power.

The quick formation of a funnel cloud in Forestville on Thursday. Photo by Asher Tefft