SCOTIA, N.Y. -- The National Weather Service confirmed a EF-0 tornado hit part of Scotia, causing damage to homes Tuesday and hundreds of power outages.
The high winds and rain caused trees to topple onto houses in several neighborhoods just before 3 p.m. Tuesday. National Grid reported hundreds of outages in Schenectady, Saratoga, Albany and Warren counties after the storms.
People noticed there was storm damage on one half of 5th Street, and no damage on the other.
"It took me a second to realize it hit that house too," said Meghan, a 13-year-old who watched a tree fall on her neighbor's house on her way home from school.
The afternoon thunderstorm damaged property and power lines in a sporadic fashion.
Rowan, who's 17 months old, was sleeping upstairs in her home on Bruce Street.
"Just like a matter of minutes it felt like and then, freight train right through the house," said her mom, Sarah Zink explaining what the tree falling on their home felt and sounded like.
Other houses on Bruce Street sat unscathed, but around the corner, there was more damage. A window on Curt Kling's mom's pet shop was gone but there was no shattered glass.
"We think in a tornado-like effect, it got sucked out," he said.
The National Weather Service recorded 70 mile an hour wind gusts.