Communities cleaning up after Sunday's storm

A tree came crashing down next to 1465 Vision St. on the city's west side in the wake of a storm Sunday evening that had winds recorded at 69 miles per hour. A number of trees in town were uprooted as a result of the storm. (Photo courtesy of Diana Likens)

People in Mountain Home and surrounding communities continued to clean up as they assessed the damage from a powerful wind storm that battered southern Idaho on Sunday.

Packing near-hurricane force winds clocked at 69 miles per hour, the storm was responsible for triggering power outages across southern Idaho.

The storm was triggered by a "trifecta of weather," said Capt. Glenn Harrison, a forecaster with the Mountain Home Air Force Base weather department. A cold front out of Canada collided with a mass of hot air in southern Idaho that drew a massive amount of air into the region and created strong winds that were originally expected to reach 57 miles per hour.

At the same time, however, thunderstorms brewing northwest of Boise collapsed, producing even stronger winds that ripped through the region throughout the evening, Harrison said.

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