According to weather experts, short bursts of rain brought down the high winds that caused power outages to more than 3,500 homes and businesses Saturday night during the peak of the storm.

"It didn't take much to bring that wind down to the surface, especially with that front down to the surface," said Lee Hendricks, a meteorologist for the NWS office in Pittsburgh.

Between 3 p.m. Saturday and 12:14 a.m. Sunday, there were 31 calls for downed power lines.

As of 11 a.m. Sunday, about 105 First Energy customers in Butler County were without power still from the overnight storms. For Central Electric Co-op about 11 customers were still without power.

According to Brittany Al Dawood, a spokesperson for West Penn Power, there were about 3,500 customers affected during a peak of requests Saturday night.

"Those conditions that moved through that resulted in downed trees and wires. There were broken poles and cross-arms," Al Dawood said. "In most wind events that's going to be the issue."

This is an excerpt from a story that will appear in Monday's Butler Eagle.