WARREN — While most of Sunday was sunny with clear skies, by late afternoon skies turned dark and severe thunderstorms came through, leaving damage throughout the area.

While most of the damage was downed trees and powerlines, a building also was damaged near downtown Warren.

A section of the 1100 block of East Market Street had wires down across the road and parts of buildings and other debris in parking lots and on the road.

The Warren fire and police departments were out answering calls, as were Ohio Edison crews as electric wires were down on East Market Street and nearby Charles and Logan avenues.

Resident Jade Walker, who lives on Charles Avenue SE, said there was “a big gust of wind” and heavy rain going through.

“I saw a large dumpster at River Gate High School that got blown over and then parts of the roof were blown off and went flying across the street and hit a store. There was a tree on the street that broke and fell over,” Walker said.

She said River Gate High School moved to its new location not too long ago after previously being located at the corner of Elm Road and Franklin Street SE, near the Tribune Chronicle.

MAHONING COUNTY

In Mahoning County, there were also reports of outages, mostly in Goshen Township and neighboring communities. In Mahoning County, there were less reports of damage as spokespeople at the Boardman and Austintown fire departments reported calls of downed trees and powerlines.

Western Reserve Road between state Routes 534 and 45 were closed Sunday evening because of a large tree blocking the road. Canfield safety crews and Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office deputies were on the scene working.