WASHINGTON — Hail, heavy rains and damaging winds that reached up to 70 mph impacted communities across the DMV, including metro D.C.
Damage caused by severe weather Wednesday afternoon and evening included downed trees and powerlines.
According to Dominion Energy, over 7,000 people were without power in northern Virginia, as of Thursday morning -- including parts of Prince William County, Fairfax County, Arlington and Alexandria -- during the worst parts of the storms that went through the region.
Pepco reported only a couple dozen power outages for customers in southern Maryland and Washington D.C., Wednesday. As of Thursday morning, Pepco reported about 119 customers were still impacted by outages from the storm.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings were activated throughout the afternoon, starting first around 3 p.m. in Frederick and Loudoun counties. By 5 p.m. additional Severe Thunderstorm Warnings were put in place for areas closer to Washington D.C., like Prince George's County, Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax County and Montgomery County.
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings lasted until after 10 p.m. Wednesday evening as the rough weather exited through southern Maryland towards the Eastern Shore.
Fans watching afternoon baseball at National Park who went to watch Washington take on Cincinnati had to take cover amid storms passing over the stadium in D.C.'s Navy Yard.
WUSA9 captured people running to take cover underneath the stadium's concourse in an effort to keep dry and keep out of the dangerous storms passing through.
The game would end up getting postponed due to storms lingering in the region.
Major hail was seen in parts of Virginia, including Springfield. Others in parts of northern Virginia saw their driveways and parts of yards covered in hail as the afternoon storms passed through.
In Prince George's County, a large tree went through the walls of a home and causing major structural damage. The tree falling also caused an injury to a person in the home.
The bad weather did lead to some incredible views, including a rainbow in Fort Meade, Maryland that was captured by C. Johnson.
Johnson said that the winds in the area were still blowing pretty hard when he took this picture, even amid the rain and hail clearing out of the area.
By 6 a.m. Thursday morning, Dominion Energy reporter over 3,000 customers were still without power in Fairfax County as cleanup from the storm began across our region.
This will also not be the only day this week that we could see wet weather impact communities in the region. It also looks like rain and thunderstorms could affect weekend plans for many.
WUSA9 will continue to update this story as more information comes into our newsroom.