Just after noon Tuesday, a powerful storm cell blew through northeastern Jefferson County, twisting and snapping trees. In one case, the storm blew off a home's roof and yanked trees out of the ground, roots and all.

Emergency officials who say they've seen tornados before pointed to several indicators that made it look like a twister to them. First, entire patches of long field grass pressed over sideways in a long, distinguishable track. Trees snapped and in some cases twisted to the breaking point. The suspected tornado blew over Interstate 80 and at the same time, a traffic accident was reported in that area.

Carol Reed said, "I was on the back side of the house and I heard the wind starting to whistle and I come out and looked and there was two big bangs and the tree was on the roof. It only lasted a few...about a minute. The trees were bent down below. The trees were bent over touching the ground...the tops of them."

Now a tornado touch down can not be confirmed until the National Weather Service sends a representative to the area to investigate the damage and make a ruling. That will not happen until Wednesday when a representative out of the Pittsburgh office will be in the area. In the meantime, emergency and other work crews are out checking for any additional damage that they have not found, but otherwise, its something of a dodged bullet that this suspected tornado didn't tear through a more populated area.