Two-hundred seventy-five customers in Butler County were without electrical service this morning, a day after some 4,000 customers of West Penn Power and Penn Power companies in the county lost their power from strong winds that crashed trees down on power lines.

The county communications center logged about 40 weather-related calls Monday, mostly reporting wind-caused damage.

“When you have winds like that, things fall from everywhere,” said Rob Lombardo, spokesman for West Penn and Penn Power companies this morning. He said the highest concentration of outages today was 55 in Penn Township.

The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh reported gusts hit 48 mph in Butler at about 2:15 p.m. Monday, while winds in Harmony reached 40 mph.

“These were the strongest winds we’ve had this month,” said Lee Hendricks, metrologist with the National Weather Service.

The windy weather began to subside by about 4 a.m. today.

Butler had a couple utility lines knocked down by the wind, including along West New Castle Street by the city’s public safety building.

“The winds snapped a pole in half,” said Tom Shuler, foreman of the city’s streets department.

The section of West New Castle Street remained closed this morning.

Lines on St. Marys Street also fell. The city department finished cleaning up those lines this morning.

Jason Dailey, Cranberry Township director of public works, said this morning that crews have already dealt with two fallen trees as a result of the wind.

John Hock, public works manager in Adams Township, said the five-man road crew spent 10 to 12 hours Monday clearing trees, or parts of trees, from the township’s roads.