Severe weather strikes Pittsburgh area, bringing power outages, property damage and injuries

Thousands of people across the Pittsburgh area were without power following damaging storms on Saturday afternoon.

West Penn Power customers, especially those in Washington, Fayette, and Greene counties, have been among the hardest hit.

The following number of West Penn Power customers are without power as of 8:00 p.m. Saturday.

• Allegheny County: 828
• Westmoreland County: 6,706
• Washington County: 17,311
• Fayette County: 24,613
• Greene County: 6,076

Duquesne Light, meanwhile, lists only two customers without power across its service area as of 8 p.m.

West Penn and other FirstEnergy customers can track current outages at this link. 

Duquesne Light customers can track outages at this link.

Severe weather lifts Fayette County home off its foundation

Saturday's weather created a scary situation for a Fayette County homeowner.

Not only did part of a tree fall onto the residence on Braznell Concrete Road, but the entire home lifted off its foundation, moving a few feet. 

"It was like being in a funhouse," the homeowner, Tim Broadwater, said. "I was scared to death, I thought I was going to end up in the creek."

He and his wife were in their bedroom when the wind began hitting their home, lifting it a few feet off the cement blocks the home sits on, he said. 

"The tree hit right above the bedroom," Broadwater said.

"It was just a boom," he said. "Windows popped, pictures came off the wall."

Getting out, he said, took creativity.

"I raised the bottom slide and tore the screen out, and I crawled out between the porch and the house," he said.

Firefighters helped his wife get out. Both residents were okay.

"She's still crying. We've been here 32 years," he said.

The storm sheared off the tops of trees across their neighborhood in Redstone Township, Fayette County. Multiple roads were blocked off due to downed trees.

"Thank God, nobody got hurt," he said. "If somebody asked me if that was a tornado that I lived through, I'd say yes."

There's one thing he can't get off his mind, though.

"That little porch bugs me. It's built on top of the ground," he said, explaining his front porch, which he put in in the past few years, did not move while the rest of the home did. "It stayed there, and the rest of the house went for a slide."

While firefighters told him not to re-enter the home, he's holding on to hope there is a way they can stay. 

Multiple injuries reported at West Virginia baseball game

The severe weather also wreaked havoc in West Virginia, while the Mountaineers were playing Cal Poly in the 2026 NCAA super regionals at Kendrick Family Ballpark at the Monongalia County Baseball Complex in Granville.

In a statement posted to social media on Saturday evening, university officials confirmed at least five people were transported for injuries after heavy winds blew over an event tent.